Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If the public sector organisation:
(a) knows or believes on reasonable grounds that another public sector organisation holds the information; or
(b) is holding the information but knows or believes on reasonable grounds that the information originated from, and is more closely related to the operations of, another public sector organisation;
the public sector organisation may decide to transfer the application to that other public sector organisation.
(2) Despite the 30-day period mentioned in section 19(1) , the public sector organisation must transfer the application within 15 days after receiving it.
(3) The public sector organisation transferring the application must include in the notice of decision under section 20 a statement to the effect that the application has been transferred to another public sector organisation and specifying:
(a) the date of the transfer; and
(b) the name of the public sector organisation to whom the application has been transferred; and
(c) the name, designation and contact details of an officer or employee of the organisation to whom the application has been transferred who may be contacted about the application; and
(d) that, within 30 days after the date of the transfer, the organisation to whom the application has been transferred will give the applicant a further notice of decision in accordance with section 20.
(4) Within 30 days after the date of the transfer, the public sector organisation to whom the application is transferred must deal with the application as if it had been made to that organisation and this Division applies (with the necessary changes) accordingly.