Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act unless the contrary intention appears:
"Board" means a Valuation Board of Review established under section 20G.
"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Panel appointed under section 20C.
"gross annual rental" means the fair rental that a property may be expected to be let at from year to year less statutory outgoings.
"improvements", in relation to land, means improvements on or appertaining to the land, whether visible or invisible and whether made or acquired by the owner or a predecessor in title of the owner, and includes any destruction of suckers and seedlings that is incidental to the destruction of other vegetable growths and of animal pests on the land to the extent only to which the destruction retains its effectiveness, but does not include the destruction by a person of any vegetable growths or animal pests that are allowed to establish themselves on the land during his ownership except to the extent, if any, to which that destruction consists wholly or partly of the further destruction of any vegetable growths or animal pests which, after having apparently been destroyed, are again allowed to establish themselves on the land.
"land" includes a stratum.
"lease" includes a licence to occupy, or a tenancy of, land.
"lessee" means a person to whom a lease of land has been granted, and includes a person to whom a lease passes by transfer, devolution or operation of law.
"municipality" has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act .
"owner" means, in relation to land that is subject to a lease from the Crown, the lessee of the lease, and includes a person who has obtained a right to be granted such a lease.
"Panel" means the Valuation Board of Review Panel established under section 20B.
"parcel of land" means an area of land that is separately held by any owner.
"prescribed improvements", in relation to any lands, means improvements on or appertaining to the land that are of a kind referred to in section 12.
"ratable" means, in relation to land, liable under a law of the Territory to have rates imposed in respect of the land.
"rating authority" means the council of a municipality, and includes any other body or authority that is entitled to impose rates in respect of land under a law of the Territory.
"site improvements", in relation to any land, means improvements on the land that consists of:
(a) the reclamation of any part of the land by draining or filling and the erection of retaining walls, and the carrying out of other works, for the purposes of reclamation; or
(b) the excavation, grading or levelling of any part of the land otherwise than for the purpose of irrigation or conservation.
"statutory outgoings" means, in relation to land, any rates imposed by a rating authority and any water, sewerage and other rates and taxes applying to the land during the 12 month period immediately preceding a determination of the annual value of the land.
"stratum" means a part of land consisting of a space or layer below, on or above the surface of the land, or partly below and partly above the surface of the land, defined or definable by reference to improvements or otherwise, whether some of the dimensions of the space or layer are unlimited or whether all the dimensions are limited, but refers only to a stratum ratable or taxable under an Act.
"the Tribunal" means the Land and Valuation Review Tribunal established by this Act.
"valuation roll" means a valuation roll prepared and maintained under section 15.
"Valuer-General" means the Valuer-General for the Territory appointed under section 5.
"valuer" means a person who is a Fellow or an associate member of the Australian Institute of Valuers Incorporated, and includes a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, possesses equivalent qualifications.