Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts12. Ownership of bed and banks of waterway forming boundary of land
(1) Where a waterway forms the boundary of land which is alienated by the Crown and that boundary is not a boundary surveyed for the purposes of the registration of the title to the land under the Land Title Act , the bed and banks of the waterway, to the extent, if any, that they were not the property of the Crown immediately before the commencement of this section are, by virtue of this section, acquired by and vested in the Territory.
(2) In a grant or lease of land made after the commencement of this section, the bed and banks of a waterway forming the boundary of the land shall remain the property of the Territory except to the extent that they are contained within the boundaries of the land surveyed for the purposes of the registration of the title to the land under the Land Title Act .