Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NORTHERN TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1978 - SECT 71

  (1)   The regulations may make provision for and in relation to:

  (a)   the substitution of the Territory for the Commonwealth as a party to a prescribed contract or a contract included in a class of prescribed contracts; and

  (b)   matters arising from, connected with or consequential upon any such substitution.

  (2)   In subsection   (1), prescribed contract means a contract:

  (a)   which was subsisting immediately before the commencing date or was entered into on or after that date and before the date of commencement of the Northern Territory (Self - Government) Amendment Act 1982 ;

  (b)   to which the Commonwealth is a party; and

  (c)   which relates to a matter specified under section   35;

other than a contract referred to in subsection   69(6).