Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts44. Authority may carry out work
(1) Where an improvement notice requires the doing of work by the person to whom it was issued or his or her employer who has the responsibility for carrying out the work and that work has not been done or carried out -
(a) where no appeal has been lodged under section 43 against the notice - within 7 days after the date allowed by the notice; or
(b) where an appeal has been so lodged and the Court has affirmed the notice or modified it in such a way that work is required to be done - within 7 days after the date on which the decision of the Court was made known or by such date, earlier or later than the date allowed by the notice, as the Court allows,
for doing that work, the Authority may give to the person responsible for carrying out the work a further notice advising him or her that after a specified day, not being earlier than 7 days after the service of the further notice on the person, it intends to carry out or cause to be carried out the work and it may after that day, on being satisfied that an appeal has not been lodged under section 43 against the further notice, carry out or cause to be carried out the work and for that purpose may enter on the land comprising the relevant workplace with such workers and machinery as are or is reasonably necessary and do all things reasonably necessary to be done.
(2) The costs reasonably incurred by the Authority in exercising its powers under subsection (1) shall be a debt due and payable to the Authority by the person required by the notice or decision to carry out the work.