Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A member of the Legislative Assembly or a person authorised under this section may appoint persons to be scrutineers for the purposes of a referendum.
(2) The appointment of a scrutineer:
(a) is to be made in writing or by telegram or other electronically transmitted writing;
(b) in the case of a scrutineer for a polling place, is to be addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer for the division or the presiding officer of the polling place for which the scrutineer is appointed;
(c) in the case of a scrutineer for a place at which the results of the referendum are to be determined, is to be addressed to the officer conducting the determination at the place;
(d) is to be signed by the member or person authorised to make the appointment or bear his or her name; and
(e) is to state the name and address of the scrutineer.
(3) The Chief Electoral Officer may, as he or she thinks fit, authorise a person to appoint scrutineers for the purposes of a referendum.
(4) Only one scrutineer appointed by each member of the Legislative Assembly or each person authorised to appoint scrutineers for a polling place may enter or remain in the polling place at any one time.
(5) Only one scrutineer appointed by each member of the Legislative Assembly or each person authorised to appoint scrutineers for a place where the results of the referendum are to be determined may enter or remain in the place at any one time or, if tables are used for the purposes of counting ballot-papers, only one scrutineer for each table may enter or remain in the place at any one time.