Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

JUSTICES ACT - SECT 60

    (1)     Where a defendant is apprehended under a warrant or where, from the absence of witnesses, or from any other reasonable cause, it becomes necessary or advisable to defer or adjourn the defendant's hearing, the Justice before whom that defendant is brought or appears may remand, and that Justice or another Justice may, from time to time, further remand that defendant for such period as that Justice thinks fit, but not exceeding 15 clear days at any one time unless both parties consent thereto.

    (2)     Where a Justice remands under subsection (1) or (3) a defendant, the Justice shall, in respect of the defendant's period of remand or further period of remand, as the case may be, commit that defendant:

        (a)     by warrant to the nearest prison or to some place of security; or

        (b)     orally to the custody of the constable or other person who apprehended him; or

        (c)     orally to such other safe custody as the Justice thinks fit,

and that Justice shall order that defendant to be brought up at some stated time and placed before such Justice or Justices as shall then be there, of which order the clerk shall give the complainant due notice.

    (3)     A Justice, on being satisfied that a defendant who has been remanded under subsection (1) and committed into custody in accordance with subsection (2) is, by reason of illness or accident, unable at the expiration of the period for which he was remanded under subsection (1) to appear personally before a Justice may, in the absence of the defendant, further remand that defendant for such period as the Justice thinks fit, but not exceeding 15 clear days at any one time.

    (4)     Where a Justice, for the purposes of a further period of remand referred to in subsection (3), commits under subsection (2)(a) a defendant, the warrant required by that second-mentioned subsection may be issued by the Justice further remanding the defendant or by any other Justice.

    (5)     A Justice may, instead of committing under subsection (2) a defendant, grant the defendant bail in accordance with the Bail Act .