NORTHERN TERRITORY (ADMINISTRATION).
No. 85 of 1939.
An Act to amend the Northern
Territory (Administration) Act 1910–1933, and for other purposes.
[Assented to 15th December, 1939.]
[Date
of commencement, 12th January, 1940.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia,
as follows:—
Short
title and citation
1.—(1.) This
Act may be cited as the Northern
Territory (Administration) Act 1939.
(2.) The Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910–1933 is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910–1939.
Vesting
of land and other property.
2. Section
eleven of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “this Act” and
inserting in their stead the words “the Northern
Territory (Administration) Act 1931”.
3. After section eleven of the Principal Act the
following section is inserted:—
Disposal
of Crown lands.
“11a. Notwithstanding anything contained in
any other Act, all lands in the Territory acquired by or vested in the
Commonwealth may be disposed of, and instruments, receipts and other documents in
relation to those lands may be executed, in accordance with any Ordinance or
other law for the time being in force in relation to such disposal or
execution.”.
Ordinances.
4. Section
twenty-one of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-section (2.) and inserting in
its stead the following paragraph:—
“(b) take effect—
(i) from the date of notification;
(ii) where another date (whether before or
after the date of notification) is specified in the Ordinance, from the date
specified; or
(iii) where the Ordinance so provides, from
such date as is fixed by the Minister or by the Administrator (as the case may
be) by notice in the Gazette; and”
Validation
of grants, leases, &c.
5. Where,
prior to the commencement of this Act, the Governor-General, any Minister, the
North Australia Commission constituted under the Northern Australia Act 1926, or the Administrator or the Land Board
of the Northern Territory of Australia, purported, in pursuance of any
provision of any Ordinance or other law for the time being in force in relation
to land in the Territory, to grant an estate in fee-simple, or a lease, licence
or permit of, or in respect of, any such land, or to execute any instrument,
receipt or other document in relation to such land, the estate in fee-simple,
lease, licence or permit shall be deemed to have been duly granted, and every
such instrument, receipt or other document shall be deemed to have been duly
executed, if granted or executed in accordance with such Ordinance or other
law, and shall be deemed to be and at all times to have been as valid and
effectual for all purposes as if this Act had been in force at the date of the
grant or of the execution.
Validation
of commencement dates of Ordinances.
6. Where in
any Ordinance made under the Northern
Territory (Administration) Act 1910, under that Act as subsequently
amended, or under the Northern Australia
Act 1926, it is provided that the Ordinance shall commence on a date to be
fixed by notice in the Gazette,