Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) A householder of the town in which any commonage is situated or a butcher or dairyman carrying on business in that town, may make application to the Ranger for permission to depasture animals on that commonage.
(2) A traveller may make application to the Ranger for permission to depasture his horses, mules or donkeys (being animals used for transport purposes only) on any commonage for a period not exceeding one week.
(3) If the application is granted, the Ranger shall allot to the householder, butcher, dairyman or traveller a number.
(4) Each animal (other than cattle owned by a butcher and intended for slaughter) owned by that person, which is on the commonage, shall have suspended from its neck or horns a metal disc bearing the number allotted in pursuance of subregulation (3).