Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this section, in exercising jurisdiction conferred by section 9, a court is to apply the laws, whether written or unwritten, in force in the Northern Territory. (2) The laws referred to in subsection (1) do not include laws that are: (a) substantive criminal laws; or (b) laws of criminal investigation, procedure and evidence;
(3) A law is taken to be in force in the Northern Territory even if it applies only in part of the Northern Territory. (4) This section does not require a court to apply a law that is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth (including this Act). (5) This section does not limit the operation that any law has apart from this section. (6) The regulations may provide that a law, or specified provisions of a law, referred to in subsection (1) are not to be applied for the purposes of that subsection, or are to be so applied with specified modifications.