Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts62. Tenant to use nominated repairers
(1) A landlord may, in a tenancy agreement or by notice in writing to the tenant, nominate a person (including the landlord) to be a nominated repairer for a type of repairs.
(2) If a tenant is permitted under section 60 to have repairs made (in this section referred to as the permitted repairs ) and the landlord has specified a nominated repairer who may make repairs of that type, the tenant must take all reasonable steps to engage that repairer to make the permitted repairs.
(3) If the landlord has nominated a person under subsection (1), a tenant may have permitted repairs made by a person other than the nominated repairer only if:
(a) the tenant cannot, despite reasonable attempts to do so, engage the nominated repairer to make the permitted repairs within a reasonable time;
(b) the tenant has obtained quotations for cost from 2 repairers who are appropriately qualified to make the repairs; and
(c) the tenant has chosen the repairer offering the lowest quotation, unless the repairer offering the lowest quotation would not be able to make the permitted repairs within a reasonable time.