Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Secretary may determine the extent to which a particular expenditure is to be attributed to a particular category of eligible deduction in calculating the royalty payable by a royalty payer and, upon the determination being made, that particular expenditure shall be attributed accordingly.
(2) Where the activities of a royalty payer on or in relation to a production unit are activities which, in the opinion of the Secretary, are not directly related to the production of a saleable mineral commodity by that production unit but which would otherwise attract eligible deductions, the Secretary may, for the purpose of calculating the royalty payable by the royalty payer, apportion the expenditure between the activities directly related to the production of a saleable mineral commodity and those other activities, as the Secretary thinks fit.