Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to section 30, on the commencement of this Act in respect of the operations of the unit of administration within the meaning of the Public Service Act known as the Northern Territory Water Authority:
(a) any levy, fee, charge, interest, debt, or money payable to the Territory shall become payable to and be recoverable by the Authority;
(b) all liabilities, contracts, and engagements, and all rights and authorities of any nature whatever of the Territory shall become liabilities, contracts, engagements, rights, and authorities of the Authority; and
(c) all rights, authorities, and licences granted or issued by the Territory shall continue in force on the same terms and conditions on which they were granted or issued or on which they arose as if such rights, authorities, and licences had been granted or issued by the Authority.
(2) All estates and interests in property, real and personal, and rights (except property mentioned in subsection (1)) held by the Territory immediately before the commencement of this Act that is or are utilized by, or required for the purposes of the operation of, the unit of administration within the meaning of the Public Service Act known as the Northern Territory Water Authority shall, by virtue of this section and without further assurance, vest in the Authority in pursuance of subsection (3) subject to any liabilities, charges, obligations or trusts affecting the estates or interests.
(3) The Minister shall from time to time as the estates and interests referred to in subsection (2) are identified or ascertained declare by instrument in writing that the property specified, either generally or specifically, in the instrument is property to which subsection (2) applies, and the Authority thereupon has such powers as are necessary to take possession of, recover, and deal with the property and enforce the rights.
(4) On the lodgement of a copy of an instrument under subsection (3) with the Registrar-General or an officer controlling any register or other record of interests in property, the Registrar-General or that officer, as the case may require, shall, in respect of registrable estates or interests specified in the instrument, make the necessary entries in the relevant registers or records and generally do all such things as may be necessary to give effect to subsection (2).