Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts24. Conditions of licence
Every exploration licence shall, unless expressly waived, varied or suspended in writing by the Minister, be granted subject to the conditions imposed by or under section 166 and to the condition that the licensee will -
(a) for the purposes of exploring for minerals, carry out geological, geochemical or geophysical surveys or any combination of those surveys, on the licence area;
(b) not extract or remove from the licence area any amount of ore, material or other substance other than amounts for sampling purposes authorized by or under section 23(c);
(c) expend not less than the minimum amount of expenditure specified in the licence in carrying out exploration activities on the licence area;
(d) within 28 days after confirmation of their discovery, report in writing to the Secretary all minerals of possible economic or scientific interest discovered on the licence area;
(h) obtain and send to the Secretary such water samples and data on underground water encountered during exploratory drilling as the Secretary, in writing, directs;
(j) conduct his exploration programmes and other activities in such a way as not to interfere with existing roads, railways, telephone or telegraph lines, power lines and cables, water pipelines or dams or reservoirs or gas, oil, slurry or tailings pipelines or storage containers, situated on the licence area, or the lawful activities or rights of any person on or in relation to land adjacent to the licence area; and
(k) not interfere with any historical site or object, or any Aboriginal sacred site or object, declared as such under a law in force in the Territory, otherwise than in accordance with that law.