Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts45HA. Procedure where application made for matter to be dealt with by Court
(1) Where a person named in a prescribed notice wishes the matter the subject of the notice to be dealt with by the Court, the person shall, not later than 28 days after the date of the offence alleged in the notice, apply to the Court.
(2) An application under subsection (1) shall be in writing, signed by the person, and accompanied by a copy of the prescribed notice.
(3) The clerk of the Court shall, on receiving an application under subsection (1), fix a time and date for the Court to deal with the matter and shall inform the person of that time and date and shall notify the member in charge of the police station referred to in the notice of the time and date.
(4) For the purposes of the Court dealing with a matter the subject of a prescribed notice, the notice shall be deemed to be a complaint alleging the person named in the notice committed an offence against section 45D at the time and place and in the circumstance contained in the notice.
(5) A date fixed under subsection (3) shall not be earlier than 14 days after the last day for the making of an application under subsection (1) in respect of the particular matter.
(6) Where the Court, in respect of a number of applications under subsection (1), is satisfied from the particulars contained in the prescribed notices accompanying those applications that the alleged offences arise out of the same facts, the matters shall be tried together and, for that purpose, the Court may adjourn the hearing of those matters.
(7) Where, on the hearing of a matter under this section, the Court finds the person who made the application guilty of the offence against section 45D referred to in the prescribed notice, all interests in the money equivalent to the value of the liquor are, on that finding, forfeited to the Territory.