Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) An employer may allow an employee to take annual leave before it accrues.
(2) Where annual leave is taken before it accrues, a further period of annual leave does not accrue until after the expiration of the 12 months qualifying service in respect of which the first-mentioned annual leave was so taken before it accrued.
(3) Where annual leave has been granted by an employer to an employee before it accrued and the employee subsequently ceases to be employed by the employer before completing the 12 months qualifying service in respect of which the annual leave was granted, the employer may, for each complete month (excluding public holidays) of the qualifying service period of 12 months employment not served by the employee, deduct from whatever pay is payable upon termination of the employment one-twelfth of the amount of pay paid on account of annual leave.