Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts14. Term and renewal of licence
(1) The Commissioner must grant a licence for a term that has effect until the expiry of the licence period current at the date of the grant of the licence or, if the application for the licence is made 6 months or less before the expiry of the licence period current at the date the application is made, until the expiry of that licence period or the next following licence period.
(2) In granting a licence the application for which was made 6 months or less before the expiry of the licence period current at the date the application was made, the Commissioner may grant the licence for a term that has effect during the whole or a part of the remainder of that licence period until the expiry of the next following licence period.
(3) No licence may have effect before the date it is issued under section 17A.
(4) For the avoidance of doubt, a licence has effect from the date it is issued or other later date specified in the licence -
(a) until the expiry of the licence period current at the date the application for the licence is made or the licence period next following the current licence period, as the case may require; or
(b) until it is cancelled or surrendered.
(5) Subject to section 17D, a licence may be renewed.