Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where the Practitioners Board is satisfied, on an application under section 23, that a person, not being a corporation:
(a) is a fit and proper person to be so registered;
(b) has the relevant qualifications and experience determined by the Minister in relation to the particular category of building practitioners specified in the application; and
(c) has complied with the prescribed conditions, if any,
it shall register the person as a building practitioner in the category of building practitioners specified in the application.
(2) Where the Practitioners Board is satisfied, on an application under section 23, on behalf of a firm, that:
(a) all of the natural persons by whom the firm is constituted would be fit and proper persons to be so registered if the application had been made by them personally;
(b) at least one of those natural persons has the relevant qualifications and experience determined by the Minister in relation to the particular category of building practitioners specified in the application and is registered as a building practitioner in that category; and
(c) the firm has complied with the prescribed conditions, if any,
it shall register the firm as a building practitioner in the category of building practitioners specified in the application.
(3) Where the Practitioners Board is satisfied, on an application under section 23 on behalf of a corporation, that:
(a) all of the persons concerned in the management or conduct of the corporation would be fit and proper persons to be so registered if the application had been made by them personally;
(b) at least one of those persons has the relevant qualifications and experience determined by the Minister in relation to the particular category of building practitioners specified in the application and is registered as a building practitioner in that category; and
(c) the corporation has complied with the prescribed conditions, if any,
it shall register the corporation as a building practitioner in the category of building practitioners specified in the application.
(4) Conditions prescribed for the purposes of subsections (1)(c), (2)(c) or (3)(c) may include a condition requiring a building practitioner to hold a policy of professional indemnity or other insurance of a type or for an amount, or both, determined by the Minister.
(5) A person shall not perform a function of a building practitioner unless the person holds a policy of insurance, if any, required as a condition of his, hers or its registration as a building practitioner.
Penalty: $10,000.