Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2), an application for an order under section 8 shall be made within a period of 12 months after the date on which administration in respect of the estate of the deceased person has been granted.
(2) The Court may, after hearing such of the persons affected as the Court thinks necessary, extend the time within which an application may be made under section 8.
(3) An extension of time in pursuance of this section may be granted:
(a) upon such conditions as the Court thinks fit; and
(b) whether or not the time for making an application has expired.
(4) An application for the extension, under this section, of the time within which an application for provision out of the estate of the deceased person may be made under section 8 may not be made after the estate of a deceased person has been lawfully and fully distributed.
(5) An application for provision out of the estate of a deceased person shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to have been made on the day upon which the notice of motion or other document instituting the application is filed.