Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where it is necessary to prove any of the following facts:
(a) The finding of guilt or acquittal before or by any Court of any person charged with any offence; or
(b) That any person was sentenced to any punishment or pecuniary fine by any Court; or
(c) That any person was ordered by any Court to pay any sum of money; or
(d) The pendency or existence at any time before any Court of any criminal trial, proceeding, inquiry, charge or matter,
evidence of such fact may be given by the production of a certificate under the hand of a Judge or officer of the Court, showing the fact, or purporting to contain the substance, omitting the formal parts, of the record, indictment, finding of guilt, acquittal, sentence, or order, or of the trial, proceeding, inquiry, charge or matter in question and stating the time and place of the finding of guilt, conviction, acquittal, sentence or order, or of the trial, proceeding, inquiry, charge or matter, with the title of the Court or the name of the Judge before or by whom it was had, or passed, or made, or pending or existing.
(2) Any such certificate which states that the person signing it ordinarily has the custody of the records, or documents, or proceedings, or minutes referred to therein, shall be evidence of that fact.
(3) Any such certificate showing the finding of guilt, conviction, acquittal, sentence or order shall be evidence of the offence or matter in respect of which the finding of guilt, conviction, acquittal, sentence or order was had, or passed, or made, if stated in the certificate.
(4) Any such certificate showing the pendency or existence of any trial, proceeding, inquiry, charge, or matter shall also be evidence of the particular nature and occasion or ground and cause thereof, if stated in the certificate.
(5) Any such certificate purporting to contain the substance, omitting the formal parts, of any record, indictment, finding of guilt, conviction, acquittal, sentence, or order, or of any proceeding, inquiry, charge or matter, shall also be evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.
(6) Until the contrary is shown, every finding of guilt summarily made referred to in any such certificate shall be presumed not to have been appealed from.