Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts20. Presumptions about taking or using name, title or description
(1) This section applies to the following names, titles and descriptions:
(a) lawyer or legal practitioner;
(b) barrister, solicitor or attorney;
(c) counsel, Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel, Her Majesty's Counsel, His Majesty's Counsel or Senior Counsel;
(d) another name, title or description prescribed by the regulations.
(2) Subject to section 21, the regulations may specify the kind of persons who are entitled, and the circumstances in which they are entitled, to take or use a name, title or description to which this section applies.
(3) For section 19(1), the taking or using of a name, title or description to which this section applies by a person who is not entitled to take or use that name, title or description gives rise to a rebuttable presumption that the person represented the person is entitled to engage in legal practice.
(4) For section 19(2), the taking or using of a name, title or description to which this section applies by a person in relation to a body corporate, of which the person is a director, officer, employee or agent, gives rise to a rebuttable presumption the person represented the body corporate is entitled to engage in legal practice.