Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts13. Deed of grant
(1) The Administrator shall execute in duplicate a deed of grant of the estate and interest in the sanctuary conferred by this Act and shall forthwith deliver the deed to the Land Trust.
(2) The deed of grant referred to in subsection (1) shall exclude all roads over which the public had a right of way immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(3) The deed of grant referred to in subsection (1) shall be expressed to be subject to the reservation, in favour of the Crown, of the right to all minerals in their natural condition or in a deposit of waste material obtained from any surface or underground working on or below the surface of the sanctuary, and the grant of the land is, accordingly, subject to that reservation.
(4) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, the land that constitutes the sanctuary was occupied or used by the Crown or an Authority or agent of the Crown for a particular purpose, the Crown or that Authority or agent, as the case may be, is entitled to continue that occupation or use for that purpose for such period as the land is so required by the Crown or the Authority or agent.
(5) Without limiting the generality of subsection (4), the Crown or an Authority or agent of the Crown may continue to occupy and use the houses, buildings, wharf and other structures, and the airstrip, existing immediately before the commencement of this Act on that part of the sanctuary known as Black Point.