Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations4.07. Continuance as writ of proceeding by originating motion
Where a proceeding in which there is a defendant is commenced by originating motion but ought by or under an Act or this Chapter to have been commenced by writ, or might in the opinion of the Court more conveniently continue as if commenced by writ:
(a) the Court may order that the proceeding continue as if it had been commenced by writ and may, in particular, order that any affidavit already filed in the proceeding shall stand as pleadings, with or without liberty to a party to add to those pleadings or to apply for particulars of the pleadings or that pleadings be served between the parties, and that the parties have discovery of each other; and
(b) by virtue of that order, the proceeding shall be taken to have been duly commenced for all purposes on the day the originating motion was filed.