Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts16. Fences bounding roads
If the owner of land bounded by a road constructs a sufficient fence on the boundary of his land which is contiguous with the road and another owner thereafter adopts any means whereby his land is enclosed by that fence or makes use of that fence in any way, that other person is liable to pay to the owner who constructed the fence one half of the value of that fence at the date on which he first had or took some step to have any use or benefit from the existence of that fence.