Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

LITTER ACT - SECT 3

In this Act:

"authorized receptacle" means a rubbish receptacle that the Minister causes to be provided for the disposal of rubbish or a bin or container provided by a person for the purpose of a rubbish collection authorized by the Minister.

"boat" includes a launch, yacht, canoe, raft, pontoon and any thing capable of carrying persons or goods through or on water.

"clerk", in relation to a municipality, means the clerk, by whatever name called, of the municipality or the council of the municipality.

"litter" means litter, garbage, rubbish, refuse or waste matter, and includes the body of a dead animal.

"municipality "means a local government area and includes a shire.

"officer" means a person who is:

        (a)     a member of the Police Force;

        (b)     employed by:

            (i)     the Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory;

            (ii)     the Darwin Port Corporation; or

            (iii)     the council of a municipality,

    for the purpose of enforcing by-laws made by that Commission or Authority or the council of that municipality;

        (c)     an authorised officer under the Public and Environmental Health Act ; or

        (d)     a person appointed under section 5.

"public place" means:

        (a)     a street, road or lane, whether a thoroughfare or not, being a street, road or lane that is open to or used by the public, and includes a footpath, bridge, court, entrance, drive-way, verge, nature strip, traffic island and gutter of such a street, road or lane;

        (b)     a park, reserve, recreational or sporting ground, beach or other open place, being a park, reserve, ground, beach or place that is open to or used by the public, but does not include a place approved by the Chief Health Officer for the disposal of rubbish; or

        (c)     water in, and off the coast of, the Northern Territory that is open to or used by the public.

"registered owner", in relation to a motor vehicle or boat, means the person in whose name the motor vehicle or boat is registered under a law of the Northern Territory relating to motor vehicles or boats.

"vacant Crown land" means Crown land, as defined in the Crown Lands Act :

        (a)     in which no person (other than the Crown in right of the Territory) has an estate or interest; or

        (b)     if a person (other than the Crown in right of the Territory) has an estate or interest in the land it is only an interest under a licence or an estate or interest under a law in force in the Territory relating to the exploration for, or mining or extraction of, minerals, petroleum or gas,

being land of which there is apparently no person having the immediate care and control and which is not:

        (c)     a public place; or

        (d)     a place approved by the Chief Health Officer for the disposal of rubbish.