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.
Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976 45 (3) The Commission may, after receiving a report from the Place Names Committee, assign a name to a proposed sanctuary.