Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person is entitled to be enrolled for a division if:
(a) the person is qualified, under section 14 of the Self-Government Act, to vote at an election for MLAs; and
(b) under the Commonwealth Act, the person's residential address is in the division or the person is treated as having a real place of living in the division.
(2) However, an MLA may be enrolled for the division the MLA represents or proposes to stand for election at the next general election even if the MLA's residential address under the Commonwealth Act is in another division.
(3) An MLA enrolled under subsection (2) may vote as an elector of the division for which the MLA is enrolled.
(4) A person is not entitled to be enrolled for more than one division.
Note for section 21
It is compulsory for a person to be enrolled for an electoral division. Under an arrangement made between the Administrator and the Governor-General under section 20, the Territory uses Commonwealth electoral rolls. A failure to enrol or notify a change of address is an offence under the Commonwealth Act.