Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A reference in an Act to another Act by its short title or by reference to its number and the calendar year in which it received assent shall:
(a) if that Act has, at the time the Act in which the reference appears is made, itself been amended, whether or not that amendment is then in force – be read as a reference to that Act only and not to that other Act as amended; or
(b) if that Act has not, at that time, been so amended – be read as a reference to that other Act as amended from time to time.
(2) A reference in an Act to another Act by the words contained in its short title or by a method of citation provided by section 49(1)(d) shall be read as a reference to the Principal Act that may be so cited as amended from time to time.
(3) Where a provision of an Act amends another Act, a reference in that provision to that other Act shall be read as a reference to that other Act as in force as at the date immediately before the date of commencement of that provision.