Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts84A. Occupation of land pending determination of application
(1) Where an application for a mineral claim has been lodged, the applicant shall not carry out or continue to carry out any exploration or mining on the land to which the application relates, or use it for any associated purpose, until the application is granted.
Penalty: $10,000.
Default Penalty: $1,000.
(2) Where land the subject of an application referred to in subsection (1) -
(a) is, or is part of, a mineral claim area; or
(b) is held by the applicant under an exploration licence or an exploration retention licence,
nothing in that subsection prevents the applicant from carrying out any exploration or mining, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the mineral claim, exploration licence, or exploration retention licence, as the case may be, on the land to which the application relates, or the applicant using that land for associated purposes.