Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where the owner of a place suspects on reasonable grounds that it is being used as:
(a) a place for unlawful betting; or
(b) a means of access to, or exit or escape from, a place used for unlawful betting,
the owner may serve on the occupier of the place a notice to quit.
(2) Notwithstanding the Business Tenancies (Fair Dealings) Act or the Residential Tenancies Act , a notice served under subsection (1) determines, as from 14 days after the date of service of the notice, any tenancy which the occupier may hold as if the tenancy had expired by effluxion of time.
(3) An owner referred to in subsection (1) may, without any authority other than this Act, take legal proceedings to evict, and may evict, the occupier of a place referred to in that subsection.
(4) A notice referred to in subsection (1) shall be served personally on the occupier but, if the occupier cannot, after reasonable inquiry, be found, service may be effected by affixing a copy of the notice to the place to which it relates.
(5) A copy of a notice referred to in subsection (1) shall be served on the Commissioner of Police, either personally or by posting it to the Commissioner of Police, within 24 hours after the notice is served on the occupier.