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Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976
25ASanctuaries
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25A Sanctuaries
(1) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, an area
of land was a sanctuary under the Wildlife Conservation and
Control Act 1962, that area continues to be a sanctuary, but the
declaration by this section may be revoked by action taken under
(2) Subject to section 14, the Administrator may, by notice in the
Gazette, declare:
(a) any area of unoccupied Crown land in the Northern Territory;
or
(b) an area of land held in fee simple by the Corporation or in
respect of which the Corporation holds a lease,
to be a sanctuary.
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(3) The Commission may, after receiving a report from the Place
Names Committee, assign a name to a proposed sanctuary.