Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"child" means a person under the age of 18 years.
"clerk" means the Registrar referred to in section 42.
"committal brief "means a brief served under section 105C, including any additional documents forming part of the brief under section 105D(3)(b) or 105E(3)(b).
"committal date", for Part V, see section 100.
"complainant", for Part VII, Division 3, see section 189.
"complaint":
(a) includes a charge of minor indictable offence if, and when, a Court of Summary Jurisdiction proceeds to dispose of the charge summarily; and
(b) for Part VII, Division 3 – see section 189.
"Court of Summary Jurisdiction" or "Court" means Justices forming the Court for the purposes of hearing and adjudicating upon any case or matter which they have power to determine in a summary manner, and whether they are acting under this Act or under any other Act incorporated herewith, or by virtue of their commissions, or under the common law.
defendant :
(a) for Part VIA – see section 80; or
(aa) for Part VII – see section 189; or
(b) otherwise – means a person charged with an offence or against whom relief is sought.
"fine" includes any pecuniary penalty or pecuniary forfeiture or pecuniary compensation payable upon a finding of guilt.
"gaol" includes any prison or other place in which imprisonment or detention is authorised by law according to the circumstances of the case.
"guardian" in relation to a child includes any person who, in the opinion of the Justices having cognisance of any case in which a child is concerned, has, for the time being, the charge of, or control over, the child.
"handed-up witness statement", for Part V, see section 100.
"keeper of a gaol" includes any superintendent, keeper, or other chief officer of a gaol.
"listed exhibit", for Part V, see section 100.
"listed witness", for Part V, see section 100.
"minor indictable offence" means indictable offence which is capable of being, and is, in the opinion of the Justice before whom the case comes, fit to be heard and determined in a summary way under the provisions of Division 2 of Part V.
"notice to appear", for Part VII, Division 3, see section 189.
"personal violence offence", for Part IVA, see section 80.
"personal violence restraining order", for Part IVA, see section 82.
"preliminary examination" means an examination under section 105A.
"prosecutor", for Part V, see section 100.
"protected person", for Part IVA, see section 80.
"recorded", for Part V, see section 100.
"serious violence offence" means an offence against any of the following provisions of the Criminal Code that is punishable by imprisonment for 5 or more years:
(a) Part V, Division 2;
(b) Part VI, Divisions 3 to 6A;
(c) section 211 or 212;
(d) another provision prescribed by the Regulations.
"simple offence" means offence or act for which a person is liable by law, upon a finding of guilt before a Justice or Justices, to be imprisoned or fined or both or to be otherwise punished. but does not include an indictable offence which can only be heard and determined in a summary way as a minor indictable offence.
"Special Act" means statute, Act, rule, regulation, or by-law authorising the making of the finding of guilt or order, or the determination or adjudication in question, or otherwise specially applicable to the case.
sum adjudged to be paid by a finding of guilty and sum adjudged to be paid by an order respectively include any costs adjudged to be paid by the finding of guilt or order (as the case may be) of which the amount is ascertained by the finding or order.