Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) The Law Society may refuse to grant or renew, or may amend, suspend or cancel, local registration if the applicant for registration or the locally-registered foreign lawyer:
(a) is required by section 199 or 200 to give a written statement relating to a matter and has failed to comply with the requirement; or
(b) has given a written statement under section 199 or 200 but the Society does not consider the applicant or foreign lawyer has shown in the statement that, despite the show cause event concerned, the applicant or lawyer is a fit and proper person to be a locally-registered foreign lawyer.
(2) For this section only, a written statement accepted by the Society under section 200(3) is taken to have been given under section 200.
(3) The Society must give the applicant or foreign lawyer an information notice for the decision to refuse to grant or renew, or to suspend or cancel, the registration.