Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn an Act:
"Act" means an Act passed by the Legislative Assembly and assented to under the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth), and includes:
(a) a Territory Ordinance; and
(b) an Ordinance or Act of South Australia in its application to the Territory; and
(c) a part of an Act.
"Acting Administrator" means a person appointed under the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth) to act in the office of Administrator.
"ADI" means an authorised deposit-taking institution within the meaning of the Banking Act 1959 (Cth).
Administrative Arrangements Order has the meaning in section 35(1).
"Administrator" means the Administrator of the Territory, and includes an acting Administrator.
"adult" means an individual who is at least 18 years old.
Agency has the meaning in section 18A(1).
"Appropriation" has the same meaning as in the Financial Management Act .
"ASIC" means the Australian Securities and Investments Commission continued in existence under the ASIC Act.
"ASIC Act" means the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth).
"Attorney-General" has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Law Officers Act .
"Auditor-General" has the same meaning as in the Audit Act .
"bank" means an ADI that is permitted under the Banking Act 1959 (Cth) to assume or use:
(a) the word "bank", banker or banking ; or
(b) any other word (whether or not in English) that is of like import to a word mentioned in paragraph (a).
"bank cheque" or banker's cheque means a cheque that an ADI draws on itself.
"building society" means an ADI that is permitted under the Banking Act 1959 (Cth) to assume or use:
(a) the expression building society ; or
(b) any other expression (whether or not in English) that is of like import to the expression mentioned in paragraph (a).
"calendar month" means a period commencing at the beginning of any day of a named month and ending:
(a) at the end of the day before the corresponding day of the next named month; or
(b) if there is no such corresponding day – at the end of the next named month.
"calendar year" means the period of 12 months commencing on 1 January.
"Central Holding Authority" means the Central Holding Authority established under the Financial Management Act .
"Commissioner of Police" means the Commissioner of Police appointed or holding office under the Police Administration Act .
"commissioner for oaths", see section 3 of the Oaths, Affidavits and Declarations Act .
"committed for trial", in relation to a person, means:
(a) committed to prison with a view to being tried before a judge and jury; or
(b) admitted to bail on a recognizance to appear and be tried before a judge and jury.
"Commonwealth" means the Commonwealth of Australia.
"Consolidated Revenue Account" means the Central Holding Authority.
"contravene" includes fail to comply with.
Corporations Act 2001 means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
"court of competent jurisdiction" means a court having jurisdiction to hear and determine the legal proceeding mentioned in the Act in which the expression occurs.
"court of summary jurisdiction" means 2 justices of the peace or a magistrate sitting as a court for the making of summary orders or the summary punishment of offenders.
"credit union" has the same meaning as in section 47 of the Financial Sector Reform (Northern Territory) Act .
"Criminal Code" means the Criminal Code Act , Schedule 1.
de facto partner has the meaning in section 19A(3).
de facto relationship has the meaning in section 19A(3).
"department" means a department of the Public Service of the Territory.
"document" includes:
(a) any of, or part of any of, the following things:
(i) paper or other material on which there is writing;
(ii) a map, plan, drawing or photograph;
(iii) paper or other material on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them;
(iv) an article or any material from which sounds, images or writings are capable of being reproduced with or without the aid of another article or device;
(v) an article on which information has been stored or recorded, either mechanically or electronically;
(vi) any other record or information; and
(b) a copy, reproduction or duplicate, or part of a copy, reproduction or duplicate, of a thing mentioned in paragraph (a).
"Electoral Commission" means the Northern Territory Electoral Commission established by the Electoral Act .
"Electoral Commissioner" means the person holding or occupying the office of Electoral Commissioner established by section 314 of the Electoral Act .
"estate" includes any estate or interest, charge, right, title, claim, demand, lien or encumbrance at law or in equity.
"Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the Territory.
"external territory" means a Territory, other than the Australian Capital Territory, the Jervis Bay Territory or the Northern Territory, for the government of which as a Territory provision is made by a Commonwealth Act.
"financial year" means the period of 12 months ending on 30 June.
"friendly society" has the same meaning as in section 48 of the Financial Sector Reform (Northern Territory) Act .
"function" includes duty.
"Gazette", Government Gazette", "Northern Territory Government Gazette or "Gazette of the Northern Territory" means the Government Gazette of the Territory.
"Gazette notice" means a notice published in the Gazette .
"Government Printer" includes a person printing with the authority of the Territory.
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law means:
(a) the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law:
(i) as in force from time to time, set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld) ; and
(ii) as it applies as a law of the Territory, a State or another Territory (with or without modification); or
(b) the law of a State or another Territory that substantially corresponds to the law mentioned in paragraph (a).
Note for definition Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law is applied as a law of the Territory by the Health Practitioner Regulation (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2009.
husband has the meaning in section 19A(2).
"Imperial Act" means an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
"indictable offence" includes an act or omission committed outside the Territory that would be an indictable offence if it were committed in the Territory.
"indictment" includes information.
"individual" means a natural person.
"infant" means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years.
"insert", in relation to a provision, includes substitute.
instrument of a legislative or administrative character includes regulations, rules, by-laws, orders, determinations, proclamations, awards, documents and authorities made, granted or issued under a power conferred by an Act.
"Judge" means a Judge of the Supreme Court.
"Justice" means a justice of the peace.
"justice of the peace" means a justice of the peace within the meaning of the Justices of the Peace Act .
"land" includes all messuages, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, of any tenure or description and whatever may be the estate or interest in the land.
"law of the Territory" means:
(a) an Act; or
(b) an instrument of a legislative character; or
(c) an existing law of the Territory within the meaning of section 57 of the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth) that is not a law mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b); or
(d) the common law.
"lawyer" means an Australian lawyer as defined in section 5(a) of the Legal Profession Act .
"legal practitioner" means an Australian legal practitioner as defined in section 6(a) of the Legal Profession Act .
"Legislative Assembly" means the Legislative Assembly of the Territory.
"Local Court" means the court established by the Local Court Act .
"magistrate" means a Magistrate within the meaning of the Magistrates Act .
marriage has the meaning in section 19A(2).
"medical practitioner" means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the medical profession (other than as a student).
"member of the Police Force" means a member of the Police Force appointed or holding office under the Police Administration Act .
minister has the meaning in section 19(1).
ministerial office has the same meaning as in the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth).
"month" means a calendar month.
"Northern Territory Government Account" means the official ADI account opened under the Financial Management Act .
"Ordinance" includes:
(a) an Act; and
(b) an Ordinance or Act of South Australia in its application to the Territory.
"Parliament" means the Legislative Assembly.
"party" includes a body politic and a body corporate.
"penalty unit" has the same meaning as in the Penalty Units Act .
"person" includes a body politic and a body corporate.
Note for definition of person
Section 24AA also deals with references to persons generally.
"police officer" means a member of the Police Force.
"prescribed" means prescribed by the Act in which the word is used or by a statutory instrument made, granted or issued under that Act.
"proclamation" means proclamation by the Administrator published in the Gazette .
"public holiday" means a day declared to be a public holiday under the Public Holidays Act .
"public sector employee" means an employee within the meaning of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act .
"real property" includes a lease of land.
"Registrar-General" means the person holding or occupying the office of Registrar-General mentioned in section 5(1) of the Registration Act .
"regulatory offence" means an offence specified in an Act or subordinate legislation to be a regulatory offence.
"see", when used to define a term, means the term has the same meaning as in the law or provision mentioned in that definition.
"sitting day", of the Legislative Assembly, means a day on which the Assembly meets.
"Speaker" means the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
spouse has the meaning in section 19A(1).
"State" means a State of the Commonwealth.
"statutory corporation" means a corporation, commission or authority incorporated by name for a public purpose by a law of the Territory, but does not include a council within the meaning of the Local Government Act or the Authority or Council within the meaning of the Jabiru Town Development Act .
"statutory declaration" means a statutory declaration made in accordance with the Oaths, Affidavits and Declarations Act .
statutory instrument means an instrument of a legislative or administrative character.
stepchild has the meaning in section 19A(4).
step-relative has the meaning in section 19A(5).
"subordinate legislation" means:
(a) regulations, rules or by-laws to which section 63 applies; or
(b) a statutory instrument that, under an Act, is an instrument to which section 63 applies.
"Supreme Court" means the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory of Australia established under the Supreme Court Act .
"table", in the Legislative Assembly, means to lay before the Assembly.
"Territory" means a Territory of the Commonwealth.
the Agency has the meaning in section 18A(2).
"the Chief Executive Officer" means the person holding or occupying the office of the Chief Executive Officer of the Agency administering the provision of the Act in which the expression occurs.
the Minister has the meaning in section 19(2).
"the Regulations" means the regulations made under the Act in which the expression occurs.
"the Territory" means, according to the context, the body politic established by the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth) as the Northern Territory of Australia or the geographical area constituting the Northern Territory of Australia.
"this Act" includes a statutory instrument under the Act in which the expression occurs.
"Treasurer" means the Treasurer of the Northern Territory.
"Valuer-General" means the person holding or occupying the office of the Valuer-General mentioned in section 5(1) of the Valuation of Land Act .
widow has the meaning in section 19A(2).
widower has the meaning in section 19A(2).
wife has the meaning in section 19A(2).