Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If it appears to the Court that an offence being dealt with pursuant to section 120 or 121A, having regard to its seriousness, the intricacy of the facts or the difficulty of any question of law likely to arise at the trial or any other relevant circumstances, ought to be tried by the Supreme Court:
(a) the Court may discontinue the summary proceedings; and
(b) the Magistrate who constituted the Court may continue the proceedings as a preliminary examination.
(2) A Magistrate who continues proceedings under subsection (1)(b) may, having regard to the stage reached in the summary proceedings, do any or all of the following:
(a) dispense with the requirement for a committal brief to be served;
(b) grant leave for witnesses to give oral evidence-in-chief or be cross-examined without requiring compliance with sections 105G to 105K;
(c) otherwise dispense with or modify the requirements of Division 1 to the extent to which the Magistrate considers appropriate to facilitate the proceedings being conducted fairly, efficiently, economically and expeditiously.