Apply for pest management technician licence

You must have a licence to use pesticides for pest control listed in schedules 5, 6 and 7.

This includes using them to manage any of the following:

• insects
• rodents
• birds
• nematodes
• bacteria
• fungi
• weeds
• other forms of animal life or viruses that are pests.

If you need to possess or use a schedule 7 fumigant for fee or reward, you must also get fumigation endorsement.

To find out more, read the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2012 and the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulations 2014.

Pest management licences may be issued for one, two or three years.

To be eligible for an NT licence you are required to be a permanent resident of the NT with a fixed address.

Mutual Recognition can be applied for if you are transferring from interstate and moving to the NT permanently.

To apply for a licence, follow the below steps:

Step 1. Fill in the application

Fill in the pest management technician licence application DOCX (72.0 KB).

Step 2. Attach supporting documents

You must provide both of the following:

• evidence of successful completion of competency units 5, 6 and 18 of the Certificate III in Pest Management or equivalent
• a certified colour photograph.

Step 3. Pay the fee

Check and pay the relevant pest management fee.

You can pay for one, two or three years.

Step 4. Submit the application

Submit the application, supporting documents and a copy of your payment receipt by mail, email or fax to:

Medicines and Poisons
Department of Health
PO Box 40596
Casuarina NT 0811
poisonscontrol@nt.gov.au

Fax: 08 8922 7200

If you hold an equivalent pest management technician licence in another state or territory and you are coming to the NT to work, you can apply for Automatic Mutual Recognition (AMR).

This allows you to conduct Pest Management Technician activities while you are in the NT as long as your original licence remains valid.

If you now intend to reside permanently in the NT you must apply for an NT pest management technician licence.

To apply for mutual recognition, follow the below steps:

Step 1. Fill in the application

Fill in the automatic mutual recognition (AMR) licence notification form DOCX (67.5 KB).

Step 2. Attach supporting documents

You must provide both of the following:

• a copy of your current equivalent licence
• a certified colour photograph.

Step 3. Pay the fee

Check and pay the relevant pest management fee.

You can pay for one, two or three years.

Step 4. Submit the application

Submit the application, supporting documents and a copy of your payment receipt by mail, email or fax to:

Medicines and Poisons
Department of Health
PO Box 40596
Casuarina NT 0811
poisonscontrol@nt.gov.au

Fax: 08 8922 7200

A renewal notice will be sent to your recorded email or postal address.

To update or change your contact details, contact Medicines and Poisons Control and quote your licence number.

You must keep records of transactions for all substances on your licence for two years.

A dedicated register is required to record all transactions for dangerous poisons, known as Schedule 7 substances.

This means recording details of stock in, balance and stock out.

Register templates

You can record your transactions on either of the following registers on the Department of Health Library Services ePublications:

• for sellers of Schedule 7 substances
• for users of Schedule 7 poisons.

Bed bugs

To read the code of practice for control of bed bug infestations in Australia, go to the Australian Environmental Pest Managers Association website.

You must hold a pest management technician licence to advertise pest control services.

Advertising for pest management services must contain a pest control licence technician number either of the:

• business owner or
• licensed pest control technician.

It is an offence to advertise pest control services without a licence or to advertise without the display of a licence number.