Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) The Administrator may make regulations under this Act.
(2) A regulation may provide for any of the following:
(a) procedures relating to mineral title applications and other applications, including procedures for the following:
(i) giving notice to the public, landowners, or occupiers of land;
(ii) making a decision about the application and notifying the applicant of the decision;
(iii) the applicant's entitlement to make submissions to the Minister;
(b) matters relating to mineral authorities and corresponding titles;
(c) information to be provided to the Minister relating to an application or mineral title, including:
(i) information to be included in a technical work program; and
(ii) statistics, plans or designs;
(d) matters relating to surveying or marking boundaries of:
(i) the title area or proposed title area of a mineral title; or
(ii) an access area or proposed access area of an access authority;
(e) the regulation of authorised activities to protect land, improvements or infrastructure (for example, by prescribing the distance at which shafts and other mine workings must be kept from public or private roads, rights of way or particular buildings);
(f) matters relating to geological samples recovered under a mineral title, including any of the following:
(i) giving notice of the recovery of samples;
(ii) the keeping or disposal of samples;
(iii) giving the Minister samples;
(iv) examination of samples given to the Minister;
(g) the way in which a holder of a mineral title may exercise a right or entitlement under the title, which may include limiting that exercise in relation to:
(i) other holders of mineral titles; or
(ii) landholders or occupiers of land; or
(iii) other persons using land in the title area;
(h) matters relating to the surrender of all or part of the title area of a mineral title, or the cancellation or partial cancellation of a mineral title, including procedures for any of the following:
(i) the variation of a mineral title following the surrender of part of the title area;
(ii) the variation of a mineral title following the cancellation of the title in relation to part of the title area;
(iii) the refund of rent paid by the holder of a mineral title following the surrender or cancellation;
(i) matters relating to the variation of conditions of a mineral title;
(j) matters relating to the division or amalgamation of title areas, including any of the following:
(i) procedures for the division or amalgamation;
(ii) the maximum size of an amalgamated title area;
(iii) the minimum size of part of a divided title area;
(iv) the term of a replacement title;
(v) rent payable under a replacement title;
(vi) reports in relation to a replacement title;
(k) the way in which something required or permitted to be done under this Act must, or may, be done;
(l) the way in which a person may perform a function or exercise a power under this Act (including, for example, the way in which a person may exercise a discretion).
(3) A regulation may also do any of the following:
(a) prescribe fees payable under this Act;
(b) apply, adopt or incorporate (with or without changes) a matter contained in another instrument as in force or existing at a particular time or from time to time;
(c) provide for the enforcement of a code of practice or standard, including by providing that a contravention of the code or standard is an offence against the regulations;
(d) prescribe a fine not exceeding 200 penalty units for an offence against the regulations;
(e) provide for an offence against this Act to be an offence of strict liability.