Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where any property:
(a) has come into the custody or possession of a member of the Police Force in connection with a charge or prosecution under a law in force in the Territory or otherwise in the course of his duty; or
(b) has come into the custody or possession of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, or a clerk of the Court, whether as an exhibit or otherwise in connection with a summary proceeding in the Court,
the Court of Summary Jurisdiction may, on application either by a member of the Police Force of the Northern Territory or a clerk of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction or by a claimant of the property, make an order for the delivery of the property to the person appearing to the Court to be the owner thereof, or, may make such order with respect to the property as to the Court may seem fit.
(2) No order made under this section shall be a bar to the right of any person to recover the property by action from the person to whom it is delivered by virtue of the order where that action is brought within 6 months after the order is made.