Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts27. Licensee to nominate blocks to be retained
(1) Not later than one month, or such other time as the Secretary may approve, before the expiration of the relevant period referred to in section 26(1), a licensee shall, in writing, nominate to the Secretary the blocks the licensee wishes to retain in the licence area for the ensuing 12 months of the exploration licence and, subject to subsection (2), those blocks shall, accordingly, constitute the licence area for that ensuing period.
(2) A licensee shall not nominate the blocks to be retained in the licence area if the effect of that nomination would be that more than 3 separate areas are created.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a separate area shall consist of -
(a) a group of blocks each of which has a common side or point with another block in the separate area; or
(b) a single block.