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 a fumigation endorsement.

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

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

You can apply for mutual recognition if you are transferring from interstate and moving to the NT permanently. See interstate licences below for more details and how to apply.

You can apply online via Territory Services.

Go to Territory Services

Supporting documents

You must attach:

• evidence of your identity
• evidence you have completed each relevant competency unit of the Certificate lll in Pest Management or equivalent.

Fumigation endorsement

To use Schedule 7 fumigants, you need to add a fumigation endorsement to your licence.

See more about how to add or renew a fumigation endorsement.

Fee

A fee applies. You can pay for one, two or three years.

You can pay the fee online through Territory Services or to the Receiver of Territory Monies (RTM).

Check the relevant pest management fee.

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.

You can apply mutual or automatic mutual recognition online via Territory Services.

Go to Territory Services

Supporting documents

You must attach:

• evidence of your identity
• a copy of your interstate licence.

Fees

A fee applies. You can pay for one, two or three years.

You can pay the fee either through the Territory Services or to the Receiver of Territory Monies (RTM).

Check the relevant pest management fee.

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

You can apply to renew online via Territory Services.

Go to Territory Services

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 of either the:

• business owner
• licensed pest control technician.

It is an offence to advertise pest control services without a licence or to advertise without displaying a licence number.