Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister may, on the Minister's own initiative or following a request by a person or body, make a specific planning scheme that applies in relation to the area or areas of land described in the planning scheme or in a map to which the planning scheme refers.
(2) The Minister may, on the Minister's own initiative or following a request by a person or body, repeal a specific planning scheme.
(3) Divisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 apply in relation to the making or repeal of a specific planning scheme as if a reference in those Divisions to an amendment of a planning scheme were a reference to the making or repeal of a specific planning scheme.
(4) If the Minister makes or repeals a specific planning scheme on his or her own initiative, Divisions 3, 4 and 5 apply (with the necessary changes) in relation to that action as if the Minister had received a request for the specific planning scheme to be made or repealed.