Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if, after considering an application for admission to the legal profession under this Act, the Admission Board considers:
(a) the applicant is:
(i) eligible for admission; and
(ii) a fit and proper person to be admitted; and
(b) the application conforms with the requirements of the admission rules and there are no grounds for refusing to give a certificate for the applicant.
(2) The Board must, within the time specified in or determined under the regulations, advise the Supreme Court to that effect by filing with a Registrar a certificate in the approved form (a compliance certificate ).
(3) The Board must give the Law Society a copy of the compliance certificate.
(4) If the Board refuses to give a compliance certificate for the applicant, the Board must, within the time specified in or determined under the regulations, give:
(a) a Registrar notice about the refusal; and
(b) the applicant an information notice about the refusal.
(5) If the Board does not comply with subsections (3) and (4), the Board is taken to have:
(a) decided to refuse to give a compliance certificate; and
(b) given an information notice about the refusal at the end of the time specified in or determined under the admission rules for deciding the application.