Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts67. Joint Authority to exercise certain powers instead of Director
(1) Subject to this section, a licence or endorsement granted, given or made under this Act otherwise than by virtue of this section, does not authorize the doing of an act or a thing by or in relation to a Joint Authority fishery.
(2) In respect of a Joint Authority fishery that is to be managed in accordance with the law of the Territory, the powers conferred before or after the commencement of this Part on the Director by or under this Act, other than this Part, or the Regulations, including the Director's powers with respect to the issue, renewal, cancellation and suspension of licences, are exercisable by the Joint Authority to the exclusion of the Director.
(3) In exercising a power referred to in subsection (2), a Joint Authority -
(a) is not subject to the direction of the Minister; and
(b) shall not exercise a power so that a licence granted, given or made by the Joint Authority applies in relation to a Joint Authority fishery, or Joint Authority fisheries, not managed by that Joint Authority.
(4) A Joint Authority may endorse a licence referred to in section 11 (including such a licence granted by that Joint Authority or another Joint Authority) so as to extend the operation of the licence to matters to which the licensing powers of the Joint Authority under this Act are applicable and, where such an endorsement is made -
(a) the endorsement ceases to have effect if the licence ceases to have effect; and
(b) the Joint Authority may suspend or cancel the endorsement as if it were a licence granted by that Joint Authority.
(5) Subject to section 70(1)(b) and (c), where, at a time a fishery becomes a Joint Authority fishery, a regulation, notification or order under this Act would, but for this section, apply to the fishery, the regulation, notification or order, as the case may be, ceases so to apply.
(6) This section does not empower a Joint Authority to grant, or to take other action in respect of, a licence in respect of a foreign boat or to endorse such a licence.