| Northern Territory Rates Act Area Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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 East Arm Wharf | |||||||||||||||
  Northern Territory Rates Act Area | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°28′39″S130°54′05″E / 12.477441°S 130.901511°E Coordinates: 12°28′39″S130°54′05″E / 12.477441°S 130.901511°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 260 (2014) [2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1 July 1971 [3] | ||||||||||||||
| Territory electorate(s) | Spillett [4] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Solomon [5] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining LGAs [6] | ||||||||||||||
The Northern Territory Rates Act Area, formerly the Darwin Rates Act Area, is an unincorporated area in the Northern Territory of Australia located in Darwin and where municipal services are provided by the Northern Territory Government. [2] [6]
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia, situated on the Timor Sea. It is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, with a population of 148,564. It is the smallest, wettest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top End's regional centre.
In 2014, Alison Anderson, the Minister for Local Government and Regions during a speech in the Northern Territory Parliament in respect to the amendment of the Darwin Rates Act described the unincorporated area as follows: [2]
Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson is an Australian politician.
The prescribed area contains approximately 260 ratepayers and consists of the East Arm logistic precinct (previously referred to as the Trade Development Zone), part of the East Arm Port area and parts of adjacent areas including Berrimah, Tivendale and Wishart.
The Darwin Rates Act was given assent on 19 May 1971 and has been in force since 1 July 1971. In 2014, the act was amended to align with the Local Government Act 2008 and to allow its future application to other unincorporated areas in other parts of the Northern Territory, and was renamed as the Northern Territory Rates Act in order to eliminate confusion with the City of Darwin. [3] [2]
The City of Darwin is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. It includes the central business district of the capital, Darwin City, and represents two-thirds of its metropolitan population. The City covers an area of 112 square kilometres (43 sq mi) and, at the 2016 census, had a population of 78,804 people.
As of 2019, there was only one unincorporated area scheduled under the act and this consists of the following Darwin suburbs – East Arm, Tivendale and Wishart, and parts of the suburbs of Berrimah, Charles Darwin and Hidden Valley. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
East Arm is a suburb in the Northern Territory of Australia located in Darwin about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of Darwin City overlooking a part of Darwin Harbour known as the East Arm.
Tivendale is a suburb in the Northern Territory of Australia located in Darwin about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) east of Darwin City.
Wishart is a suburb in the Northern Territory of Australia located in Darwin about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Darwin City.
