Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette , set apart separate portions of the land comprising a public cemetery for the burial of deceased persons:
(a) of a religious denomination or group of religious denominations if requested to do so by the recognized head thereof;
(b) who served in any war in which the Crown is or has been engaged:
(i) in the Naval, Military or Air Forces of the Commonwealth or of any other part of the Queen's dominions; or
(ii) in Australia, a Territory or in an area adjacent thereto, in the Armed Forces of a Power or Authority allied or associated with the Crown; or
(c) who served in the Naval, Military or Air Forces of the Commonwealth or of any other part of the Queen's dominions and who do not come within the provisions of paragraph (b).
(2) In setting apart portions of the land comprising a public cemetery for the burial of deceased persons of a religious denomination, the Minister shall have regard to the number of adherents, in the Territory, of that and other religious denominations and shall give preference to the religious denomination having the greatest number of adherents as shown by the last official census.
(3) In subsection (2) the expression "religious denomination" does not include a group of religious denominations.