Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister may, in the name of the Territory, by instrument in the appropriate form, grant a lease of Crown land for pastoral purposes.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), where a person has a right to be granted a lease of Crown land, the Minister may, in his or her discretion and in the appropriate form, lodge with the Registrar-General details of the means by which the right arose.
(3) On the lodgement of the details referred to in subsection (1), the Registrar-General must create an entry in the land register in relation to the land and record the particulars in accordance with the Land Title Act 2000 .
(4) Despite that a lease of Crown land has not been signed by the lessee or the lessor, the recording of the particulars in the land register takes effect as a lease.
(5) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may determine to whom a pastoral lease may be granted by inviting applications, auctioning the right to the grant, inviting tenders for the right or otherwise selling or disposing of the right.
(6) The Minister shall cause notice of the disposal of the right to the grant of a pastoral lease to be published in the Gazette within 28 days after the right is given, where the right is given otherwise than:
(a) by sale by auction or tender; or
(b) under or in pursuance of Division 3.