Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts23A. Dividing fences between Aboriginal community living areas and lease from which excised
(1) In this section, "pastoral lease" means a pastoral lease within the meaning of the Pastoral Land Act .
(2) The lessee of a pastoral lease or a Crown lease of another kind from which has been excised an area of land in pursuance of Part IV of the Crown Lands Act (as in force before the commencement of the Pastoral Land Act ) or Part 8 of the Pastoral Land Act for an Aboriginal community living area shall not be liable to join in or contribute to the construction or, subject to subsection (3) and sections 14(2) and 15(2) and (5), the repair of a dividing fence between the lease and the excised land but otherwise has the same rights and duties under this Act as an owner of the lease, and this Act shall be construed, where the context so requires, as if a reference to contribution were a reference to provision or repair, as the case may be, of the dividing fence or the full cost involved.
(3) Where a boundary of an excised area of land referred to in subsection (2) was, immediately before that excision, a boundary of the lease from which it was excised, the lessee of the lease is liable under this Act to contribute equally to the cost of the repair of so much of the dividing fence between the excised land and the lease as is equal to the length of the boundary of the excised land that, immediately before the excision, formed the boundary of the lease.