Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

CROWN PROCEEDINGS ACT - SECT 5

    (1)     Subject to this Act and any relevant rules of court, and subject to the Judiciary Act 1903 of the Commonwealth:

        (a)     proceedings may be brought by or against the Crown in the same way as proceedings between subjects; and

        (b)     the same procedural and substantive law applies to proceedings by or against the Crown as in proceedings between subjects.

    (2)     Subject to the Regulations, proceedings may be brought by or against the Crown:

        (a)     in the case of the Territory Crown, under the name "Northern Territory of Australia"; or

        (b)     in any other case, under the name in which the Crown could sue or be sued in the courts of its own jurisdiction.