Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A property seizure order is an order made by the Fines Recovery Unit for the seizure of the personal property of a fine defaulter for the purpose of levying the amount payable by the fine defaulter against that property.
(2) The provisions of rules under the Local Court Act 2015 prescribed by regulation apply, with any modifications prescribed by Regulation, to a property seizure order.
(3) A property seizure order may be made in the absence of and without notice to the fine defaulter.
(4) A property seizure order is to be directed to a bailiff and provided to the bailiff for execution.
(5) If a bailiff is required to execute a property seizure order and a warrant of execution issued by a court or to execute more than one property seizure order, the priority to be accorded to their execution is as follows:
(a) a property seizure order is to be executed before a warrant of execution (even if the warrant was issued before the order);
(b) property seizure orders are to be executed in the order in which they were received by the bailiff (unless the bailiff is directed by the Fines Recovery Unit to execute them in a different order).
(6) If a property seizure order has not been executed within 12 months after it was made, the bailiff to whom the order was directed must return the order to the Fines Recovery Unit and the Unit must cancel the order, but nothing prevents the issue of a further order in the matter.
(7) A bailiff executing a property seizure order must not take any further action in relation to executing the order if the order is cancelled under section 75.