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Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976
8Transfer of rights, assets and liabilities
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8 Transfer of rights, assets and liabilities
(1) The rights, assets and liabilities of the Northern Territory Reserves
Board existing immediately before the commencement of this Act
are acquired and accepted by the Commission.
(2) The Commission shall carry out, complete and give effect to all
dealings, transactions or matters that the Northern Territory
Reserves Board was required to carry out, complete or give effect
to at the commencement of this Act as if the Commission were that
Board and exercising its powers and functions under the National
Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976 3
Parks and Gardens Act 1959.
(3) All documents and things existing at the commencement of this Act
and executed by or signed on behalf of the Northern Territory
Reserves Board shall be construed as if those documents or things
were executed by or signed on behalf of the Commission, and all
references in those documents or things to the Northern Territory
Reserves Board shall be read as references to the Commission.
(4) Notwithstanding any law of the Territory, the Registrar-General
shall, after the commencement of this Act, without other authority
than this Act, upon application by the Commission, amend all
references in the registers kept under the Land Title Act 2000 to the
Northern Territory Reserves Board, to read as references to the