Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts30. Access to areas
(1) Except as prohibited, restricted or regulated by or under this Act, the plan of management or any other law in force in the Territory, any person may enter and remain on the sanctuary.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Board may, by a notice displayed in the relevant part of the sanctuary, designate that part of the sanctuary as land to which access by persons, other than members of the group, is prohibited or restricted, according to the terms of the notice.
(3) Except in the performance of a function under this Act, or otherwise in accordance with this Act or a law in force in the Territory, a person who is not a member of the group shall not enter or remain on that part of the sanctuary designated in a notice referred to in subsection (2) otherwise than in accordance with the terms of the notice.
Penalty: $1,000.
(4) Where a plan of management is in force, the prohibition or restriction of access to part of the sanctuary designated by a notice referred to in subsection (2) shall be deemed to be included in, and form part of, the plan of management.
(5) The plan of management shall make provision for -
(a) access by fishermen to the shore of those parts of the sanctuary known as Curlew Bay and Barrow Bay and at Port Essington (in the vicinity of Victoria Settlement); and
(b) access to airstrips by the public,
and other reasonable access by the public to the sanctuary commensurate with the status of the area as a national park.