Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts9. Objections to application
(1) On receiving an application for a licence, the Commissioner must give to the Commissioner of Police a copy of it and any accompanying documents other than statements relating to the material and financial resources of the applicant.
(2) On making an application for a licence, the applicant must publish notice of the application in a newspaper circulating throughout the Territory and a newspaper circulating in the area where he or she proposes to carry on the business as agent the subject of the application.
(3) The notice must contain the prescribed information and must specify a period during which members of the public may, in writing given to the Commissioner, object to the granting of the licence on a ground specified in section 11 or 12.
(4) The Commissioner of Police must, within 28 days of receiving the copy of the application and any accompanying documents, give to the Commissioner a notice in writing that either supports the application or objects to the grant of a licence to the applicant on the grounds that the applicant or, if the applicant is a corporation, an officer of the applicant may not be a fit and proper person.
(5) An objection to the grant of a licence is to state the reasons for the objection.