Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The rent payable in respect of land within the Darwin Town Area or within a municipality is, in respect of any period during which it is within the Darwin Town Area or within a municipality, an annual rent of 10 cents if and when demanded by the Minister.
(2) The rent payable in respect of land not within the Darwin Town Area or within a municipality is, in respect of any period during which it is not within the Darwin Town Area or within a municipality, such rent as is payable in accordance with section 10A.
(3) Where a change occurs in the status of the land, so that land not within the Darwin Town Area or within a municipality becomes land within the Darwin Town Area or within a municipality, or land within the Darwin Town Area or within a municipality becomes land not within the Darwin Town Area or within a municipality, then the lessee shall be entitled to a refund of rent overpaid, or shall pay rent, as the case requires, in respect of the period from the date of the change to the end of the next succeeding annual or other rental period, the amount of the refund or the rent being calculated as if the rent in respect of the first-mentioned period were payable on a day to day basis.
(4) Subject to subsection (5):
(a) a provision in a lease determining the rent payable under the lease;
(b) a covenant by the lessee to pay rent or to pay additional rent under the lease; or
(c) a covenant by the lessee, the Commonwealth or the Territory or any mutual covenant by the lessee and the Commonwealth or Territory providing for the determination of the lease in the event of the rent payable under the lease remaining unpaid for any period,
shall cease to have any force or effect in respect of any period commencing on or after the date of commencement of the Special Purposes Leases Ordinance 1970 during which the land comprised in the lease is within a municipality and shall cease to have any force or effect after the date of commencement of the Special Purposes Leases Ordinance 1971 if the land comprised in the lease is within the Darwin Town Area.
(5) Nothing in this section prevents the enforcement of any covenant by a lessee to pay rent or additional rent where any amount of rent payable under his lease in respect of a period during which the land subject to the lease is not within a municipality remains unpaid for such period as is specified in the lease.