Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts83. Closure for rehabilitation, &c., purposes
(1) A pastoral lessee may apply to the Board for permission to close or close from access under section 79 or 81, or permit the use or such access subject to conditions, any land to which members of the public would otherwise have the use or access, on the grounds that the land, or adjoining water or pastoral land, is being or is likely to be degraded because of the use or access or that the use or access, or proposed use or access, is interfering with or will interfere with the reasonable conduct of the pastoral lessee's enterprise.
(2) The Board may, in its absolute discretion, whether or not as a result of an application under subsection (1), by notice in the Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in the area in which the land is situated, declare that members of the public do not have a right, without the specific permission of the pastoral lessee, to use or have access to land specified in the notice, either absolutely or during such period as is specified in the notice, or shall use the land or have the access only subject to such conditions as are specified or referred to in the notice and, accordingly, the right ceases to exist or exists only subject to those conditions.
(3) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a declaration under subsection (2) or a condition imposed under that subsection is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: $500.