NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
NATIONAL TRUST (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976
As in force at 28 August 2013
Table of provisions
1 Short title ......................................................................................... 1
2 Definitions ........................................................................................ 1
3 Incorporation.................................................................................... 1
4 Taking over of assets and liabilities of Northern Territory
National Trust Incorporated ............................................................. 2
5 Membership of Trust ........................................................................ 2
6 Objects of Trust ............................................................................... 2
7 Branches and branch committees ................................................... 3
9 Financial year of branch committees ............................................... 3
10 Council of the Trust ......................................................................... 3
11 Report and statement, &c., to be tabled in Legislative
Assembly ......................................................................................... 4
12 Exemption from rates and taxes ...................................................... 4
13 Power of Council to make by-laws ................................................... 4
14 Rules ............................................................................................... 5
ENDNOTES
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
As in force at 28 August 2013
NATIONAL TRUST (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976
An Act to establish a body to be known as The National Trust of
Australia Northern Territory
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the National Trust (Northern Territory)
Act 1976.
2 Definitions
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
branch and branch committee mean respectively a branch of the
Trust constituted by the Council under section 7(1) and a committee
established for a branch pursuant to section 7(3).
Council means the Council of the National Trust.
councillor means a member of the Council.
rules means the rules of the Trust made by the Council under
section 14.
Trust and National Trust mean The National Trust of Australia
(Northern Territory) established and incorporated under this Act.
3 Incorporation
(1) There is established by this Act a Trust by the name of "The
National Trust of Australia (Northern Territory)".
(2) The Trust:
(a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common
seal;
(b) may acquire, hold and dispose of, and manage, control and
deal with, real and personal property;
(c) may sue and be sued in its corporate name; and
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(d) is capable of doing and suffering all such acts and things as
bodies corporate may by law do or suffer.
(3) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial
notice of the common seal of the Trust affixed to a document and
shall presume that it was duly affixed.
4 Taking over of assets and liabilities of Northern Territory
National Trust Incorporated
(1) The assets and liabilities of the Northern Territory National Trust
Incorporated, an association incorporated under the Associations
Incorporation Act 1963, are acquired and accepted by the Trust.
(2) The Northern Territory National Trust Incorporated is dissolved.
(3) The Trust shall carry out, complete or give effect to all dealings,
transactions or matters that the incorporated association, if it still
existed, would be legally or equitably bound to do, as if the Trust
were that incorporated association.
(4) The certificate of incorporation of the Association under the
Associations Incorporation Act 1963 is cancelled.
5 Membership of Trust
The Trust shall consist of the persons and bodies corporate who
are for the time being members of the Trust in accordance with the
rules.
6 Objects of Trust
The Trust is established for the purposes of promoting:
(a) the preservation and maintenance, for the benefit of the
people of Australia, of lands and buildings of beauty or
historic, scientific, artistic, or architectural interest and, in
respect of lands, the preservation (as far as practicable) of
their natural aspect, features and animal and plant life;
(b) the protection and augmentation of the amenities of such
lands and buildings and their surroundings;
(c) the preservation of furniture and pictures and chattels of
national, historic, artistic or scientific interest;
(d) the access to and enjoyment of such lands, buildings and
chattels by the public; and
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(e) the co-operation with any corporation, body or society, either
within or outside the Territory, having objects wholly or
substantially similar to the objects of the Trust.
7 Branches and branch committees
(1) The Council may from time to time resolve that the members of the
Trust for the time being resident in or otherwise connected with a
specified area shall constitute a branch of the Trust.
(2) A resolution under subsection (1) shall specify the name of the
branch and the matters for which it is to be responsible.
(3) The affairs of a branch shall be conducted by a branch committee,
and rules:
(a) shall make provision as to the composition and powers of
branch committees and with respect to the finances of
branches and their management;
(b) without limiting the generality of section 14, may contain
provision with respect to any matter incidental or ancillary to a
matter specified in paragraph (a) or otherwise relating to the
functioning of branch committees; and
(c) may relate, in respect of any matter, to all branches or to a
particular branch or particular branches.
(4) The number of branches constituted by virtue of this section shall
not exceed 18 at any one time.
9 Financial year of branch committees
(1) The financial year of each branch committee shall be the 12 months
ending 30 June.
(2) Each branch committee shall maintain accounts in respect of the
activities of the branch and prepare a balance sheet to the end of
each financial year for presentation to the Council.
10 Council of the Trust
(1) Subject to this Act, the affairs of the Trust shall be administered,
managed and conducted by a council to be called "The Council of
the National Trust".
(2) The Council shall consist of such number of members not
exceeding 18 as is specified in the rules.
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(3) Members of the Council shall be elected by members of the Trust in
accordance with the rules, and shall hold office as thereby
provided.
(4) The rules shall secure that one member of the Council is elected by
each branch.
(5) The members of the Council shall elect annually one of their
number to be President of the Trust, and the President shall also be
chairman of the Council.
(6) At a meeting of the Council the chairman of the meeting has, in
addition to his deliberative vote, a casting vote.
11 Report and statement, &c., to be tabled in Legislative
Assembly
The Council shall cause to be prepared once in each year an
annual report of the Trust's activities in the Territory and that report,
and the statement of income and expenditure and balance sheet of
the Trust required by the rules to be prepared together with a
certificate from the auditor certifying the correctness of the
statement and balance sheet, shall be tabled in the Legislative
Assembly at the next sitting of the Assembly after the preparation of
the report, statement or balance sheet, as the case may be.
12 Exemption from rates and taxes
(1) No taxes, rates (except water rates) or other imposts shall be
payable under any law of the Territory on or in respect of any real
property, whether freehold or leasehold, belonging to the Trust.
(2) Succession duty shall not be payable under any law of the Territory
in respect of any property derived by or accruing to the Trust.
(3) An instrument by which any real or personal property is transferred
to or vested in the Trust, or agreed to be so transferred or vested,
shall be exempt from duty under the Stamp Duty Act 1978.
13 Power of Council to make by-laws
(1) The Council may make such by-laws, not inconsistent with this Act
that are necessary or convenient to make for the purpose of the
administration and enforcement of this Act.
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(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Council may, in
respect of property vested in or controlled or managed by the Trust,
make by-laws, not inconsistent with this Act, for any of the following
purposes:
(a) for ensuring the safety and the preservation of, and preventing
damage to or destruction of, that property;
(b) for regulating traffic and for ensuring orderly conduct on the
part of visitors on that property;
(c) for fixing the hours during which that property or any building
or structure on that property shall be open to the public;
(d) for fixing the payment to be made for admission to any
property or any building or structure on any property and for
providing for the exclusion or removal from any property or
from any part thereof or building or structure thereon, of
persons who have not made the prescribed payment, or who
behave in a disorderly manner;
(e) for preventing trespassing;
(f) for preventing persons from injuring, destroying, taking or
removing, or in any way interfering with, animals, birds, trees
and plants; and
(g) for imposing the following maximum penalties for a
contravention of the by-laws:
(i) for an individual – $50;
(ii) for a corporation – 40 penalty units.
14 Rules
(1) The Council may make rules, not inconsistent with this Act:
(a) with respect to any matter for which rules are required or
permitted to provide by any of the preceding provisions of this
Act; or
(b) regulating in any other respect the membership, affairs,
business or management of the Trust.
(2) For the making of a rule under this section, the agreement is
required of members of the Council totalling two-thirds at least of
the number of members constituting a full Council.
ENDNOTES
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ENDNOTES
1 KEY
Key to abbreviations
amd = amended od = order
app = appendix om = omitted
bl = by-law pt = Part
ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule
cl = clause rem = remainder
div = Division renum = renumbered
exp = expires/expired rep = repealed
f = forms s = section
Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule
hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision
ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation
lt = long title sub = substituted
nc = not commenced
2 LIST OF LEGISLATION
National Trust (Northern Territory) Ordinance 1976 (Act No. 59, 1976)
Assent date 16 November 1976
Commenced 16 November 1976
Statute Law Revision Act (No. 3) 1981 (Act No. 91, 1981)
Assent date 21 September 1981
Commenced 21 September 1981
Companies and Securities (Consequential Amendments) Act 1986 (Act No. 18, 1986)
Assent date 30 June 1986
Commenced 1 July 1986 (s 2)
National Trust (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1986 (Act No. 66, 1986)
Assent date 19 December 1986
Commenced ss 1 – 3, 4(c), 8 and 11: 19 December 1986;
rem: 30 September 1987 (Gaz G39, 30 September 1987, p 6)
Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 1990 (Act No. 59, 1990)
Assent date 14 December 1990
Commenced 1 January 1991 (s 2, s 2 Corporations (NT) Act 1990 (Act
No. 56, 1990) and Gaz S76, 21 December 1990)
Corporations Reform (Consequential Amendments NT) Act 2001 (Act No. 17, 2001)
Assent date 29 June 2001
Commenced 15 July 2001 (s 2, s 2 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth Act No. 50,
2001) and Cth Gaz S285, 13 July 2001)
Penalties Amendment (Miscellaneous) Act 2013 (Act No. 23, 2013)
Assent date 12 July 2013
Commenced 28 August 2013 (Gaz G35, 28 August 2013, p 2)
ENDNOTES
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3 SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
s 11 National Trust (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1986 (Act No. 66,
1986)
4 GENERAL AMENDMENTS
General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table
of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation
Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) to: ss 1, 4 and 12.
5 LIST OF AMENDMENTS
lt amd No. 91, 1981, s 2
s 1 amd No. 91, 1981, s 2
s 2 amd No. 91, 1981, s 2; No. 66, 1986, s 4
ss 3 – 4 amd No. 91, 1981, s 2
s 7 amd No. 91, 1981, s 2
sub No. 66, 1986, s 5
s 8 rep No. 66, 1986, s 5
s 9 amd No. 66, 1986, s 6
s 10 amd No. 91, 1981, s 2; No. 66, 1986, s 7
s 12 amd No. 91, 1981, s 2
s 13 amd No. 91, 1981, s 2; No. 18, 1986, s 3; No. 66, 1986, s 8; No. 59, 1990,
s 4; No. 17, 2001, s 21; No. 23, 2013, s 12
s 14 amd No. 91, 1981, s 2
sub No. 66, 1986, s 9
sch hdg amd No. 91, 1981, s 2
rep No. 66, 1986, s 10
sch amd No. 91, 1981, s 2
rep No. 66, 1986, s 10