Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts19. Reservations and restrictive covenants
(1) The power of the Minister to grant an estate in fee simple includes power to grant it subject to such reservations (including the reservation of easements), covenants and covenants in gross, if any, as the Minister thinks fit.
(2) At any time while the Territory is the registered proprietor of an estate in fee simple in land, the Minister may, by instrument lodged with the Registrar-General, declare that the land is or shall cease to be subject to a reservation, easement, covenant or covenant in gross and, on the instrument being so lodged, the land shall be or cease to be, as the case may be, subject accordingly.
(3) A reservation, covenant or covenant in gross in favour of the Crown or the Territory is not and does not become ineffective by reason only that the Territory is or becomes the registered proprietor of the land that is the subject of the reservation, easement or covenant.