Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts9. Weight of evidence - section 5
In estimating the weight, if any, to be attached to a statement tendered for admission or admitted under section 5, regard shall be had to all the circumstances from which an inference can reasonably be drawn as to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement, including -
(a) in the case of a statement made by a person or a statement wholly or in part reproducing or derived from a statement made by a person -
(i) the recency or otherwise at the time when he made his statement of a relevant matter dealt with in his statement; and
(ii) the presence or absence of an incentive for him to conceal or misrepresent a relevant matter in his statement;
(b) in the case of a statement wholly or in part reproducing or derived from information from one or more devices, the reliability of the device or devices; and
(c) in the case of a statement reproducing or derived from information, the reliability of the means of reproduction or of derivation.