An Indigenous corporation set up to deliver the remote work-for-the-dole scheme across the Northern Territory's gulf region has been placed into special administration.

Key points: Gulf Savannah NT Aboriginal Corporation placed into special administration

Gulf Savannah NT Aboriginal Corporation placed into special administration GSNT was created to provide job services to the NT gulf region's remote communities and surrounding outstations.

GSNT was created to provide job services to the NT gulf region's remote communities and surrounding outstations. ORIC says something must be done to fix GSNT's internal problems

The Gulf Savannah NT Aboriginal Corporation (GSNT) was set up in 2013 by the Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Indigenous Corporation in Borroloola and the Mungoorbada Aboriginal Corporation in Robinson River.

Anthony Beven, registrar at the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC), said GSNT had been placed into special administration because of a deadlock between Mabunji and Mungoorbada, which are both having governance problems.

"Earlier this month, the GSNT directors wrote to me to express their concern about the deadlock and asked me to help by appointing a special administrator," Mr Beven said in a statement.

"The directors are very worried about the possible interruptions to the essential employment and training services that the corporation delivers throughout the region."

GSNT was created to provide job services to the region's remote communities and surrounding outstations under the Federal Government's Community Development Programme, Mr Beven said.

"It's clear something must be done to fix its internal problems so the corporation can move on."

Mungoorbada has been under special administration since March last year and has recently been exempted from lodging last year's financial statements, according to ORIC notices.

In December, an audit of Mabunji revealed its former chief executive Alison Doyle and a human resources manager received more than $186,000 in excessive time-off-in-lieu payments on top of their salaries.

"I suspect on reasonable grounds that there are financial irregularities and other irregularities in the affairs of the corporation," ORIC registrar delegate Peter Armstrong said in the notice.

The TOIL payments were not approved and, in the case of the chief executive, were equivalent to 187 days last financial year, according to the notice.

Mabunji's former chief executive Michael Gravener was sacked by the corporation last August after about two months in the job.

The corporation has been under the spotlight since then, with residents and Mr Gravener demanding transparency and an investigation into Mabunji's governance.

Mabunji had until mid-February to report on its TOIL policy, employment contracts, non-compliance with the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act and other irregularities.

In a statement, ORIC said Mabunji had responded by this date and the response was being assessed.

Mabunji's current chief executive, Greg Crofts, said in a statement to the ABC: "Mabunji are very pleased that ORIC have finally intervened with GSNT."

"Mabunji have approached ORIC constantly since November 2015 about poor financial management and governance at GSNT."

Mr Crofts said there was "no deadlock" as far as Mabunji was concerned.