Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer of the Agency allotted responsibility by an Administrative Arrangements Order for the administration of courts.
"court" means:
(a) the Supreme Court; or
(b) the Local Court; or
(c) the Court of Summary Jurisdiction established by section 41A of the Justices Act ; or
(d) the Youth Justice Court continued in existence by section 45 of the Youth Justice Act ; or
(e) the Work Health Court under Part 3 of the Work Health Administration Act ; or
(g) a justice conducting a preliminary examination under Part V of the Justices Act ; or
(h) a prescribed court; or
(j) a tribunal, body or person that is by law entitled to hear, receive and examine evidence and is prescribed.
"court premises" means the premises or place where a court is held or that are used in connection with the operations of a court and includes:
(a) a forecourt, courtyard, yard or area used in conjunction with the premises or place; and
(b) a part of premises that is used to provide entry to or exit from court premises.
"explosive" means a substance or article manufactured, designed or ordinarily used to produce an explosion or a pyrotechnic effect and includes:
(a) fireworks and gunpowder;
(b) a gaseous substance so compressed that it is capable of exploding;
(c) material or a substance used to produce an explosion or pyrotechnic effect; and
(d) an apparatus, machine, implement or material, or a part of an apparatus, machine, implement or material, used or able to be used or adapted to cause or aid in causing an explosion or a pyrotechnic effect.
firearm has the meaning it has in the Firearms Act .
"frisk search" means a search conducted by a person running his or her hands over the outer clothing of the person being searched.
"judge" means a Judge within the meaning of the Supreme Court Act , a Justice, a magistrate and a prescribed person.
"offensive weapon" has the same meaning it has in section 56A(4) of the Summary Offences Act .
"screening search" means:
(a) in relation to a search of a person – a search by equipment that is designed to carry out the search without touching the person; and
(b) in relation to the search of an object – a search by equipment that is designed to carry out the search without touching the object or requiring it to be opened.
"security officer", in relation to a court, means a person appointed under section 5(2) in relation to the court and person referred to in section 5(1)(a) or (b).