Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) Subject to subregulation (2), the Director may, as a condition of a permit, limit the area or exclude an area within which a vessel to which a permit relates may be operated when operated as a hire-and-drive vessel.
(2) A vessel, the measured length of which is not longer than 7 m, may be operated as a hire-and-drive vessel only in inland waters and sheltered waters of the Territory.