Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts36. Compliance certificates
(1) This section applies if, after considering an application for admission to the legal profession under this Act, the Admission Board considers:
(a) the applicant is:
(i) eligible for admission; and
(ii) a fit and proper person to be admitted; and
(b) the application conforms with the requirements of the admission rules and there are no grounds for refusing to give a certificate for the applicant.
(2) The Board must, within the time specified in or determined under the regulations, advise the Supreme Court to that effect by filing with a Registrar a certificate in the approved form (a compliance certificate ).
(3) The Board must give the Law Society a copy of the compliance certificate.
(4) If the Board refuses to give a compliance certificate for the applicant, the Board must, within the time specified in or determined under the regulations, give:
(a) a Registrar notice about the refusal; and
(b) the applicant an information notice about the refusal.
(5) If the Board does not comply with subsections (3) and (4), the Board is taken to have:
(a) decided to refuse to give a compliance certificate; and
(b) given an information notice about the refusal at the end of the time specified in or determined under the admission rules for deciding the application.