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Water Act 1992
12Ownership of bed and banks of waterway forming boundary of
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12 Ownership of bed and banks of waterway forming boundary of
land
(1) Where a waterway forms the boundary of land which is alienated by
the Crown and that boundary is not a boundary surveyed for the
purposes of the registration of the title to the land under the Land
Title Act 2000, the bed and banks of the waterway, to the extent, if
any, that they were not the property of the Crown immediately
before the commencement of this section are, by virtue of this
section, acquired by and vested in the Territory.
(2) In a grant or lease of land made after the commencement of this
section, the bed and banks of a waterway forming the boundary of
the land shall remain the property of the Territory except to the
extent that they are contained within the boundaries of the land
surveyed for the purposes of the registration of the title to the land
under the Land Title Act 2000.