Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies in relation to land that will be affected by one of the following proposals if carried out:
(a) a proposal to amend a planning scheme by establishing or changing a zone;
(b) a proposal to grant or vary an exceptional development permit.
(2) Subject to this section, on or before the first day of the period of exhibition for the proposal, the Minister must:
(a) cause a notice to be served on the owner of the land; and
(b) cause to be placed on or in the vicinity of the land as many notices, in accordance with subsections (4) and (5), as the Minister considers appropriate.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the Minister considers:
(a) it is impracticable to comply with the subsection because of the location of the land or the number of parcels of land; and
(b) it is reasonable to expect that all persons likely to be affected by the proposal will receive sufficient notice of it by means of the notice published in a newspaper under section 17.
(4) A notice referred to in subsection (2)(b) must include the following information:
(a) the current zone of the land;
(b) the zone proposed for the land or the activity that will, despite the zone of the land, be permitted under an exceptional development permit.
(5) A notice referred to in subsection (2)(b) must be large enough and placed in such a position to enable a person with normal unimpaired eyesight to read it, without optical assistance, from the boundary of the public road nearest to the land.
(6) A person must not remove a notice placed on land in accordance with this section until after the end of the period of exhibition for the proposal.
Penalty: If the offender is a natural person – 100 penalty units.
If the offender is a body corporate – 500 penalty units.