Special Purposes Lease Act 1953.

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.
The Minister can invite applications for leases, auction leases or grant of lease without applications being called. In the latter circumstance, if the land was included in a pastoral or agricultural lease which has been surrendered for the purpose of enabling that land to be leased for a special purpose the Minister shall not grant a lease of that land unless the conditions established in writing by the lessee of the pastoral or agricultural lease are respected by the surrender. The grant of a lease may be subject to payment to the Territory by the lessee for the improvements (if any) on the land at the commencement of the lease. The grant of a lease may be subject to payment to the Territory by the lessee for the improvements (if any) on the land at the commencement of the lease.
Furthermore the Act establishes that the land comprised in a lease granted under this Act shall not be used for any purpose other than the purpose, or a purpose ancillary to the purpose, for which the lease was granted, and a lessee shall not subdivide, or make an application under Part 5 of the Planning Act 1999 for consent to subdivide, the lands comprised in a lease.