Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts10. Conditions to which exercise of Chief Minister's authority is subject
(1) The Chief Minister is only authorised to do the things specified in section 8 if the following conditions are complied with on or before the date prescribed by section 16(1):
(a) the applicants in the applications referred to in section 50(1)(a) of ALRA relating to the parks and reserves specified in Schedules 2 and 3 have agreed to withdraw their applications;
(b) one or more indigenous land use agreements or other legally enforceable agreements have been executed in respect of the parks and reserves specified in Schedules 1, 2 and 3 -
(i) dealing with compensation for the effect of the declaration or purported declaration and use of those parks and reserves on native title rights and interests; and
(ii) facilitating future development in those parks and reserves;
(c) the terms of the leases referred to in section 8(c) have been agreed between the parties and are in accordance with the principles set out in Schedule 4;
(d) subject to subsection (2), the terms of the joint management agreements referred to in section 8(d) have been agreed between the parties;
(e) the terms of the indigenous land use agreements referred to in section 8(e) have been agreed between the parties, are in accordance with the principles set out in Schedule 4, and are consistent with the terms of the relevant joint management agreements referred to in paragraph (d);
(f) each Aboriginal Land Trust holding an area of Aboriginal land specified in Schedule 5, which is land adjoining one or more parks and reserves specified in Schedule 1, have agreed -
(i) to lease that area of Aboriginal land to the Territory for inclusion in the parks and reserves it adjoins on terms that are in accordance with the principles set out in Schedule 4; and
(ii) that, when that area of Aboriginal land is included in those parks and reserves, it will be subject to the relevant joint management agreements referred to in paragraph (d).
(2) Each of the joint management agreements referred to in subsection (1)(d) must specify that Territorians and visitors to the Territory are permitted to enter the park or reserve to which the agreement relates without payment of an entry fee.
(3) This Act does not require any 2 or more of the indigenous land use agreements, leases, joint management agreements or other legally enforceable agreements referred to in subsection (1) to be in the same terms.