Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts80. Public access not to be obstructed
(1) Subject to subsection (3), a person shall not, without lawful authority, place an obstruction across a route nominated or indicated pursuant to section 79(2) or (3) or a route for the passage of travelling stock.
Penalty: $5000.
(2) If pastoral land over which an access route referred to in subsection (1) is nominated is fenced and there is no gate or grid in or other means of passage through or over, the fence at the point at which reasonable access to the route can be had, the Minister shall cause a suitable gate or grid, or other means of passage, to be erected in, through or over the fence at that point.
(3) Where a pastoral lessee erects a fence across an access route referred to in subsection (1), the pastoral lessee shall provide a suitable gate, grid or other means of passage in, through or over the fence at its intersection with the access route to ensure that access to the route can be had.
Penalty: $5,000.
(4) The pastoral lessee shall, subject to section 82, keep a gate referred to in subsection (2) or (3) unlocked.
Penalty: $5,000.