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Crown Lands Act 1992
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37 Reservations in leases
(1) In a lease under this Act:
(a) a reservation of a right of entry and inspection shall be read as
a reservation of a right in favour of the Minister, or a person
authorised in writing by the Minister, at all reasonable times
and in a reasonable manner, to enter on the leased land or a
part of it and to inspect the leased lands and any
improvements, stock, and crops on it;
(b) a reservation of minerals shall be read as a reservation to the
Crown of all minerals and extractive minerals within the
meaning of the Mineral Titles Act 2010, and all petroleum,
within the meaning of the Petroleum Act 1984, together with
the right to authorise a person to enter on the land to mine,
work for, win, recover and remove them or any of them, and to
do all things necessary or convenient for those purposes;
(c) a reservation of a power of resumption shall be read as a
power to resume the land in accordance with this Act; and
(d) a reservation of all timber shall be read as including all timber
trees and all trees producing bark, resin or valuable
substances together with the right to authorise a person to
enter on the land and to cut or fell any timber or timber trees
or trees producing bark, resin, or valuable substances, and to
take away any timber, wood, bark, resin, or any such valuable
substances and to do all things necessary or convenient for
those purposes.
(2) In a lease under this Act, a reservation in favour of the Aboriginal
inhabitants of the Territory shall be read as a reservation permitting
those Aboriginals:
(a) who ordinarily reside on; or
(b) who, by Aboriginal tradition, are entitled to use or occupy,
the leased land:
(c) to enter and be on the leased land;
(d) notwithstanding any other law of the Territory, to take and use
the water from the natural waters and springs on the leased
land; and
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(e) subject to any other law in force in the Territory:
(i) to take or kill for food or for ceremonial purposes animals
ferae naturae; and
(ii) to take for food or for ceremonial purposes vegetable
matter growing naturally,
on the leased land,
but not permitting:
(f) the Aboriginals referred to in paragraph (a) to erect or use a
structure on the leased land that would serve as a permanent
shelter for human occupation, other than at the place on the
leased land where they ordinarily reside; or
(g) the Aboriginals referred to in paragraph (b) to erect or use
such a structure on the leased land.
(3) Where a lease under this Act contains a reservation in favour of the
Aboriginal inhabitants of the Territory a person shall not, without
just cause, interfere with the full and free exercise, by the persons
thereby entitled, of the rights reserved to them.
Maximum penalty: 40 penalty units.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) just cause includes reasonable
acts taken by or on behalf of a lessee or another person having an
interest in a lease to ensure the proper management of the lease
for the purposes for which it was granted.