Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts29. Work on place or object subject to interim conservation order
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister or the Minister's delegate may, by instrument in writing, after seeking and taking into account the recommendations of the Council, permit a person to:
(a) carry out such work or do anything on a place, or to or in relation to an object, in respect of which an interim conservation order is in force as the Minister or the Minister's delegate, as the case may be, thinks fit; or
(b) remove such an object from one location to another, including to a place outside of the Territory,
subject to such conditions, if any, as are specified in the instrument.
(2) The Minister or the Minister's delegate shall not permit an action in relation to an archaeological object prescribed for the purposes of Part 6 which is sacred according to Aboriginal tradition unless he or she has sought and taken into account the advice, if any, of the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority established by the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act given after consultation with those Aboriginals it considers to be the traditional owners of the object.