Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts21. Occupation of land pending determination of application
(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a miner has applied to the Minister for the grant to that miner of an exploration licence, no miner, including the applicant, may subsequently lodge an application for the grant of a mining tenement or exploration retention licence in respect of the land or any part of it while the Minister has not granted or refused the grant of the exploration licence applied for.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent -
(a) a miner from obtaining an extractive mineral permit or extractive mineral lease in respect of land the subject of an application for an exploration licence;
(b) the holder of a mining tenement or exploration retention licence from obtaining water rights or other ancillary mining tenement or exploration retention licence over the land for the purposes of working that first-mentioned mining tenement or exploration retention licence;
(c) the holder of a mining tenement or exploration retention licence from surrendering the tenement or licence in exchange for another mining tenement or exploration retention licence over all or any part of the land held under the first-mentioned mining tenement or exploration retention licence; or
(d) a miner from lodging an application for the grant of a mining tenement or exploration retention licence in respect of land the subject of an application for an exploration licence where the land was marked out in the prescribed manner on or before the date on which the application for the exploration licence was lodged.