Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If the Commissioner receives an application under section 8, the Commissioner may, if the Commissioner considers it appropriate, issue to the association a certificate of incorporation.
(2) If the association is a trading association, the certificate of incorporation must state that fact.
(3) The Commissioner must refuse to issue a certificate of incorporation:
(a) to an association if its name is a prescribed unauthorised name unless the Minister consents to its incorporation under that name; and
(b) in the case of a trading association if:
(i) the ethnic community specified in the application is not a prescribed ethnic community; or
(ii) satisfied the constitution of the association is unreasonable or unfair.
(4) The Commissioner may refuse to issue a certificate of incorporation on another ground the Commissioner considers appropriate.