42Rights of way

42 Rights of way

(1) If more than one area of land is covered by a lease granted under section 31, the Commonwealth and its employees and agents have a right to use the shortest practicable route, on an existing road or track, between the areas of land. (2) If: (a) land is: (i) granted to an association under subsection 46(1A) of the Lands Acquisition Act of the Northern Territory; or (ii) owned by the Catholic Church of the Diocese of Darwin Property Trust; and (b) only a part (the leased land) of that land is covered by a lease granted under section 31 of this Act; and (c) a road through another part of the land granted to the association, or owned by the Trust, gives access to the leased land; the Commonwealth and its employees and agents have a right to use that road to access the leased land.