Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts34. Annual reports
(1) A licensee shall, within one month after the expiration of each period of 12 months of his licence or such longer period as the Secretary allows, lodge with the Department a report in a form satisfactory to the Secretary on the exploration activities carried out on the licence area during that period.
(1A) Despite any other provision of this Act, a licensee may lodge a report under subsection (1) relating to 2 or more licence areas -
(a) if the licence areas are substantially contiguous and relate to the same geological entity; and
(b) subject to the conditions (if any) agreed between the licensee and the Minister.
(2) The report referred to in subsection (1) shall include details of total expenditure on exploration activities and all geological, geochemical and geophysical survey reports, and all drilling and other reports, completed by or becoming available to the licensee in relation to his exploration activities on the licence area or areas, and all data, maps, logs and records associated with or necessary to interpret those reports.
(3) A licensee shall lodge with each report under subsection (1) an estimate, in a form satisfactory to the Secretary, of proposed expenditure on exploration activities for the 12 month period of the exploration licence or licences following that to which the report relates.