Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts51. Saving of register, &c.
(1) The register set up under section 24 of the repealed Acts as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, and all other records of the Authority as then constituted under those Acts, shall, on the commencement of this Act, become the property of the Authority and shall be kept and retained by the Authority, as records of the Authority.
(2) A site registered on the register referred to in subsection (1) at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a site in respect of which an application under section 27(1) by the custodian or custodians has been made on the date of commencement of this Act and, subject to subsections (3) and (4), Division 2 of Part III, with the necessary changes, applies accordingly.
(3) Where the Authority is of the opinion that there is available to it from the register and other records of the Authority under the repealed Acts sufficient information to enable it to determine the matters referred to in section 27(2) and to record the information required by section 27(3) to be recorded, it may dispense with the need to consult with the custodians of a site and rely on that available information.
(4) Until a site referred to in subsection (2) is registered in accordance with section 29 or the Authority decides not to so register it, for all purposes of this Act, other than Division 2 of Part III -
(a) the site shall be deemed to be registered in the Register;
(b) the part of the register referred to in subsection (1) relating to the site shall be deemed to be part of the Register; and
(c) subject to an Authority Certificate or a Minister's Certificate, entry onto, the carrying out of work on, or the use of, the land comprised in the site shall be deemed to be subject to the same conditions as applied immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in this section, where the Authority is requested by the custodian or custodians of a sacred site to remove from the register referred to in subsection (1) all record of the sacred site, the Authority shall remove the record accordingly and subsections (2) and (4) cease to apply to or in relation to that sacred site.
(6) This section expires at the expiration of 3 years after the commencement of this Act.