Special Purposes Lease Act 1953. Country/Territory Australia Territorial subdivision Northern Territory Document type Legislation Date 1954 (2021) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act relating to the granting of leases for special purposes, the resumption of those leases and for other purposes. Subject Agricultural & rural development, Land & soil, Mineral resources, Sea Keyword Agricultural land Pastoralism Lease Resource/damage valuation Private land Public land Indigenous peoples Mining Territorial sea Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract The Act confers to the Minister the power to grant a lease for a special purpose of any unleased land belonging to the Crown or the Territory in the Northern Territory, including the bed of the sea within the territorial limits of the Northern Territory and land reserved under any Act. Under the Act special purpose means any purpose other than a private residential purpose within a town, or a site for a town, within the meaning of the Crown Lands Act 1992, a pastoral, agricultural or mining purpose. Full text English Website legislation.nt.gov.au