Laws and By-Laws

Important message

Changes to Library access and book drop

Construction of the new Civic Centre building will soon commence. The current Civic Centre carpark and nearby entrance will be closed from Monday 28 April and remain closed while works take place. The City Library will remain open and will be accessible from the Civic Centre Customer Services’ entry near Civic Park.

Please note that the City Library returns chute will be temporarily unavailable. A new Book Drop will be installed at the Cavenagh St side of the Civic Centre soon.

We kindly ask all customers to:

return items inside the Library during opening hours, or
use one of the 24/7 return chutes located at Casuarina, Nightcliff or Karama libraries.

For more information about the project, please go here.

We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

Council is responsible for exercising its powers and functions according to numerous acts of legislation and By-Laws that regulate and control activities across the Darwin municipality.

New By-Laws were endorsed by Council on 27 June 2023.

The new By-laws are now required to be notified in the Gazette and published at legislation.nt.gov.au/ prior to the commencement date of 2 October 2023 for the By-laws to become operational.

City of Darwin will provide further information to the public on the introduction of the new By-laws once the required legislative processes have been observed, and closer to the date of effect.

Further information is available by clicking on the links below: