FORM 10A
rule 10.04(5)
HEADING AND NOTICE ON COUNTERCLAIM WHERE DEFENDANT NEW PARTY
IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
OF AUSTRALIA AT 
[DARWIN / ALICE SPRINGS]					No.   

BETWEEN
					A.B.				Plaintiff
					and 
					C.D.				Defendant
(by original proceeding)
AND BETWEEN
					C.D.				Plaintiff
					and
				  A.B. and E.F.			Defendants
(by counterclaim)
To E.F.
of [address]
This proceeding has been brought against you by the defendant for the claim set out in this counterclaim.
	IF YOU INTEND TO DEFEND the claim YOU MUST GIVE NOTICE of your intention by filing an appearance within the proper time for appearance stated below.
	YOU OR YOUR SOLICITOR may file the appearance.  An appearance is filed by:
(a)	filing a "Notice of Appearance" in the Registry of the Supreme Court in the Supreme Court Building, State Square, Darwin, or, where the counterclaim has been filed in the Registry at Alice Springs, in the Alice Springs Registry of the Supreme Court; and
(b)	on the day you file the Notice or on the next working day serving, at the defendant's address for service which is set out at the end of this counterclaim, a copy, sealed by the Court.
	IF YOU DO NOT file an appearance within the proper time, the defendant may OBTAIN JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU on the counterclaim without further notice.
	*THE PROPER TIME TO FILE AN APPEARANCE is as follows:
(a)	Within 7 days after service:
(i)	where you have been served with the writ filed in the Darwin Registry and that service was within the Northern Territory and within 200 kilometres of Darwin; or
(ii)	where you have been served with the writ filed in the Alice Springs Registry and that service was within the Northern Territory and within 200 kilometres of Alice Springs;
(b)	Within 14 days after service, where you are served within the Northern Territory with a writ filed in either Darwin or Alice Springs Registry but you are served at a place not within 200 kilometres of the Registry in which it was filed;
(c)	Within 21 days after service where you are served with the writ out of the Northern Territory but within the Commonwealth;
(d)	Within 28 days after service, where you are served with the writ in New Zealand or in Papua New Guinea;
(e)	Within 42 days after service, where you are served with the writ in any other place.
COUNTERCLAIM
	[Set out in separate, consecutively numbered paragraphs all the material facts relied upon for the counterclaim and state precisely the relief claimed.]
	The address of the defendant is: [address]
	The address for service of the defendant is: [address]
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* Strike out this paragraph when order made fixing time for appearance and substitute: "The proper time for appearance is within [number] days after service on you of this counterclaim".