Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts9. Power to establish local government etc.
(1) The Administrator may, by Gazette notice, exercise any one or more of the following powers:
(a) constitute a part of the Territory as a local government area or abolish a local government area;
(b) determine whether a local government area is a municipality or a shire, or change a municipality into a shire, or a shire into a municipality;
(c) assign a name to a local government area or change the name of a local government area;
(d) assign a name to the council for a local government area or change the name of the council for a local government area;
(e) define or change the boundaries of a local government area;
(f) create or abolish wards;
(g) define or change the boundaries of a ward or wards;
(h) assign a name to, or alter the name of, a ward;
(i) determine or change the number of members to be elected for a particular area or a ward within a particular area;
(j) correct an error or omission in an earlier notice under this section.
(2) The Minister may also, by Gazette notice, exercise any of the powers conferred by subsection (1) except the power to constitute or abolish a local government area.
(3) A local government area may consist of 2 or more non-contiguous sections.