Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts14A. Short term operators
(1) The holder of a licence may apply on the approved form to the Director for the approval of a person for the purposes of subsection (2) and the Director may approve or refuse to approve the person accordingly.
(2) Where a licensee intends -
(a) to be absent from operations conducted under the licence for a period of not more than 14 days; and
(b) that operations are to be carried out under the licence during his or her absence,
before that absence he or she must appoint a person who has been approved under subsection (1) to be the short term operator in respect of the licence by -
(c) writing the person's name in legible English in a record book kept for the purposes of the licence opposite the dates of the beginning and end of the period (not exceeding 14 days) of the intended absence; and
(d) signing and dating the entry and ensuring the entry is signed and dated by the person whose name is specified in the entry.
Penalty: $2,000.
(3) Where more than one person is or is to be the short term operator in respect of a licence, the holder of the licence must specify opposite the person's name in the licensee's record book the places, areas or types of operations in relation to which the person is to be the short term operator in respect of the licence, and the person is the short term operator in respect of the licence in relation to only those places, areas or types of operations accordingly.
(4) The person appointed under subsection (2) remains the short term operator in respect of the licence for the period specified in the entry in the record book under subsection (2), which period may be shortened by the holder of the licence by altering the anticipated date of his or her return opposite the entry in the record book.
(5) Subject to subsections (3) and (6), a short term operator in respect of a licence is deemed to be a holder of the licence for the purposes of this Act and each instrument of an administrative or legislative character made under it.
(6) The Director may, by notice in the Gazette , specify that a short term operator is not deemed to be the holder of a licence for the purposes of a provision of this Act or of an instrument of an administrative or legislative character made under this Act.