Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person may be nominated as a candidate for election for a division only by:
(a) if the person is nominated as the party candidate of a registered party for the division – the registered officer of that party; or
(b) otherwise – 6 electors entitled to vote at the election in the division.
(2) Only one person may be nominated as the party candidate for a registered party for the division for the election.
(3) Subsection (2) does not prevent a change of the nomination if:
(a) the registered officer of the registered party gives notice of the change to the Commission in the approved form before 12 noon on nomination day; and
(b) the change results from any of the following:
(i) the withdrawal of consent by the nominated party candidate for the division as mentioned in section 35(1);
(ii) the withdrawal of the nomination of a person as the party candidate for the division as mentioned in section 35(2);
(iii) the rejection of the nomination of a person as the party candidate for the division as mentioned in section 36(1);
(iv) the death of the nominated party candidate for the division.