Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1AA) This section applies as soon as practicable:
(a) after the Minister has received an application for an exploration permit under section 16(1); or
(b) if the Minister has made a request under section 16(5)(a) – after the Minister has received all relevant information; or
(c) if the Minister has made a request under section 16(5)(b) – after all matters relevant to the amendment or variation have been completed in accordance with the guidelines issued under section 21E.
(1) The Minister must cause to be published, at the expense of the applicant, in a newspaper circulating in the part of the Territory in which the application area is situated, or in any other publication that the Minister thinks fit, a notice containing:
(c) the name of the applicant;
(d) a description of the application area sufficient to enable it reasonably to be identified or a map upon which the proposed boundaries of the application area are indicated by reference to named geographical features; and
(e) a statement to the effect that a person who has an estate or interest in relation to land comprised in, or land contiguous with land comprised in, an application area may, within 2 months after the notice is published in the newspaper or other publication, lodge in writing with the Minister an objection to the grant.
(1A) If Part IIA or IIB applies, the relevant registered native title claimants, registered native title bodies corporate and representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies are to be served with notice in accordance with section 57F or 57T, as the case requires.
(2) The Minister may direct an applicant to serve a copy of a notice under subsection (1) on a person named in the direction.
(3) A person who does not have an estate or interest in relation to land comprised in, or land contiguous with land comprised in, an application area is not entitled to lodge an objection to the granting of an exploration permit in respect of the application area.