Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts36. Provisions relating to review of bail decisions
(1) The power under section 34 or 35 to review a bail decision:
(a) may only be exercised at the request of the accused person, the informant or complainant, being a member of the Police Force, or the Director of Public Prosecutions; and
(b) includes the power to affirm or vary the decision or to substitute another decision.
(2) A decision as varied or substituted under subsection (1) shall be in conformity with this Act.
(3) The review of a decision shall be by way of rehearing, and evidence or information in addition to, or in substitution for, the evidence or information given or obtained on the making of the decision may be given or obtained on the review.
(4) Where, on a review under this Division of a decision, bail for an accused person is revoked, a magistrate or justice may by warrant commit the person to prison.
(5) Where, on a review under this Division of a decision:
(a) bail is granted unconditionally and no bail undertaking has been given by the accused person; or
(b) a bail condition is imposed,
a magistrate or justice may by warrant commit the person to prison until he gives the undertaking or enters into the condition, as the case may be.
(6) A court may refuse to entertain a request to review, under this Division, a decision if the court is satisfied that the request is frivolous or vexatious.
(7) The Regulations may make provisions for or in relation to:
(a) the manner of making a request to review under this Division a decision in relation to bail;
(b) the giving or sending to persons of notices relating to the proposed exercise of the power to review under this Division a decision in relation to bail; and
(c) the circumstances in which such a power may be exercised in the absence of the accused person or his representative as if he or his representative were present.