Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts29. Responding to application for adjudication
(1) Within 10 working days after the date on which a party to a construction contract is served with an application for adjudication, the party must prepare a written response to the application and serve it on -
(a) the applicant and on any other party that has been served with the application; and
(b) the appointed adjudicator or, if there is no appointed adjudicator, on the prescribed appointer on which the application was served under section 28(1)(c).
(2) The response must -
(a) be prepared in accordance with, and contain the information prescribed by, the Regulations;
(b) state the details of, or have attached to it, any rejection or dispute of the payment claim that has given rise to the dispute; and
(c) state or have attached to it all the information, documents and submissions on which the party making it relies in the adjudication.