Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) This section applies if the executive director considers that it is necessary for firebreaks to be established on, or for bush or other flammable material to be removed from, land.
(2) The executive director may serve a warning notice in the approved form on:
(a) the owner, lessee, licensee, mortgagee in possession of or occupier of the land; or
(b) the person managing or controlling, or apparently managing or controlling, the use of the land.
(3) A warning notice must:
(a) state that the executive director intends to serve a firebreak notice or flammable material notice in respect of the land; and
(b) indicate the contents of the proposed notice; and
(c) invite the person on whom the warning notice is served to give the executive director, within 72 hours after that service, reasons why the proposed notice should not be served.
(4) If no reasons are given to the executive director, or the executive director considers that the reasons given are insufficient, the executive director may serve on the person on whom the warning notice was served a firebreak notice or flammable material notice, in respect of the land.
(5) The executive director must advise the Council, at its next meeting following the service of a notice under subsection (4), of the terms of the notice.