Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsAny Justice before whom any person appears or is brought upon summons or warrant, to give evidence or to produce any article may, if the person without offering any just excuse refuses:
(a) to be examined upon oath concerning the premises; or
(b) to take the oath; or
(c) to answer after having taken an oath such questions concerning the premises as are then put to him; or
(d) to bring or produce any such article,
by warrant commit him to the nearest gaol, there to remain and be imprisoned for any time not exceeding 7 days, unless in the meantime he consents to be examined and to answer concerning the premises, or to produce the article (as the case may be): Provided that no person shall be bound to produce any article not specified or otherwise sufficiently described in the summons, or any document or writing which he would not be bound to produce upon a subpoena duces tecum in the Supreme Court.