Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) Every joint application for a licence, permit or consent shall be in accordance with the appropriate approved form for such an application but shall be in the names of and signed by each joint applicant, or his or her agent, and shall bear the address of each such applicant.
(2) The Controller, after considering the application, the objections, if any, and all replies to such objections made by one or more of the joint applicants, shall determine whether or not a licence, permit or consent:
(a) shall be granted to the applicants jointly;
(b) shall be granted to one or more of the applicants, but not to all the applicants,
and may include as a condition of the licence, permit or consent such special conditions concerning the joint and several obligations of the applicants as the Controller thinks fit.
(3) It shall be a condition of every joint licence, permit or consent:
(a) that each joint holder is jointly and severally bound by the terms and conditions;
(b) that each joint holder is jointly and severally liable for any fees or other amounts payable or which may become payable under the Act;
(c) that where one joint holder is convicted of an offence against the Act, each and every joint holder shall be deemed also to have committed the offence and may be convicted of it and shall be liable to the penalty prescribed unless the joint holder proves that he did not know and had no reasonable means of knowing of the commission of the offence at the time of its commission; and
(d) that each joint holder is jointly and severally bound to comply with all notices and directions given under the Act, except where the notice or direction relates to any thing, measure or work on the land of one or more, but not all, such holders, in which case the notice or direction shall specify which joint holders shall be bound to comply therewith and are liable for a failure so to do.
(4) Where, pursuant to section 93(1) of the Act, the Controller, by notice, amends or modifies the terms and conditions of a joint licence, permit or consent, the Controller may specify in the notice the manner in which the respective entitlements of each of the joint holders are amended or modified by the notice.
(5) Where pursuant to section 93(2) of the Act the Controller, by notice, revokes or suspends a joint licence, permit or consent, the Controller may specify in the notice the manner in which the respective entitlements of each of the holders are revoked or suspended.
(6) Where an application, notice or other document is permitted or required to be served on the joint holders of a licence, permit or consent, service on any one such joint holder shall be deemed to be service on every joint holder.