Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where a law of the Commonwealth or of a State of the Commonwealth:
(a) provides for the control by biological means of an organism causing harm; and
(b) establishes an authority having similar functions to those of the Authority,
the Authority may, by notice in the Gazette , declare that law to be a relevant law for the purposes of this Act.
(2) A declaration shall not be made under subsection (1) in respect of a law unless the Minister administering that law consents in writing to the declaration being made.
(3) A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect in respect of a law if that law ceases to be a law described in that subsection.