Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

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ABORIGINAL LAND ACT - SECT 14

Entry onto, &c., closed seas

14. Entry onto, &c., closed seas

(1) Subject to this Part and to any provision to the contrary in a law of the Territory, a person shall not enter onto or remain on closed seas unless he has been issued with a permit to do so in accordance with this Part.

Penalty: $1,000.

(2) An Aboriginal who is entitled by Aboriginal tradition to enter and use the seas adjoining an area of Aboriginal land may enter and use the resources of the seas adjoining and within 2 kilometres of that area of Aboriginal land notwithstanding that a notice published under section 12 affects those seas.



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