Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts82. Temporary closure of access
(1) A pastoral lessee may, for reasons associated with the reasonable management of his or her pastoral lease, after advising the Board of his or her intention to do so, by notice in a newspaper circulating in the part of the Territory in which the pastoral land is situated and by reasonable indication on or in the vicinity of the land to which the notice refers, close any land the subject of his or her pastoral lease on which members of the public would otherwise have the right to be and any access route nominated under section 79 or 81 to that land or water adjacent to the land, but so that such land or access route is not closed by the lessee for more than 2 weeks in a year, except with the approval in writing of the Board.
(2) The Board may direct a pastoral lessee to revoke or amend a notice under this section in such manner as it thinks fit to ensure that the public has reasonable access to the land or water without unduly interfering with the operations of the pastoral enterprise and the pastoral lessee shall, as soon as practicable, comply with the direction.
Penalty: $5000.