(1)

This section applies to:

(a) the Commonwealth; and
(b) a Commonwealth entity; and
(c) a Commonwealth contractor; and
(d) an employee or agent of a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(2)

A person to whom this section applies may, in the Northern Territory, do anything necessary for or incidental to the purposes of selecting a site on which to construct and operate a facility.

(3)

Without limiting subsection (2), the person may do any or all of the following under that subsection (whether or not on a site):

(a) gain access to and enter land and drive vehicles or fly aircraft to and from it;
(b) in order to drive vehicles to and from land—use existing roads or construct roads on, or grade, land;
(c) construct or rehabilitate bores;
(d) operate drilling equipment;
(e) extract water;
(f) collect samples of flora and fauna;
(g) place monitoring equipment (including meteorological and hydrological measuring equipment);
(h) build structures to protect bores, monitoring equipment or other things;
(i) move or extract sand, gravel, soil, mineral and rock samples;
(j) conduct seismic or geological investigations;
(k) conduct archaeological or heritage investigations;
(l) clear vegetation.

(4)

A person doing a thing under this Part on land that is not a site within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition of site in section 3 must:

(a) take all reasonable steps to ensure that the doing of the thing causes as little detriment and inconvenience, and does as little damage, as is practicable to the land and to anything on, or growing or living on, the land; and
(b) remain on the land only for such period as is reasonably necessary; and
(c) leave the land, as nearly as practicable, in the condition in which it was immediately before the thing was done.