Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"ADI's book" includes any ledger, day book, cash book, account book or other book used in the ordinary course of business of an ADI, however the book is compiled, recorded or stored, whether in written form or on microfilm or by electronic process or otherwise.
"Court" includes any Court, Judge, Magistrate or Justice, and any arbitrator or person having authority by law or by consent of parties to hear, receive and examine evidence.
"document" means any record of information and includes, in addition to a document in writing:
(a) any book, map, plan, graph or drawing;
(b) any photograph;
(c) any disc, tape, sound track or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other device) of being reproduced therefrom; and
(d) any film, negative, disc, tape or other device in which one or more visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other device) of being reproduced therefrom.
"evidentiary material" means a document or other thing that may be of evidentiary value in a proceeding before a Court.
"evidentiary summons" means a summons to appear before a Court to give evidence or to produce evidentiary material, and includes a subpoena.
examined copy and examined extract mean, respectively, a copy or extract proved to have been examined with the original and to correspond therewith.
"Judge" includes the member or members of any Court.
"legal proceeding" or "proceeding" includes any action, trial, inquiry, cause or matter, whether civil or criminal, in which evidence is or may be given, and includes an arbitration.
"person acting judicially" includes any Court, and any officer in any public department having in the discharge of his duties authority to examine evidence.
"sexual offence" means a sexual offence within the meaning of the Sexual Offences (Evidence and Procedure) Act .
"statement" includes any representation of fact or opinion, whether made in words or otherwise.