Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If no Justice is present at the time and place at which any summons is returnable, or to which the hearing is adjourned or postponed, the clerk shall, at the request of the complainant, postpone the hearing until the next day on which a Justice or Justices (as the case may require) will attend at such place.
(2) The postponement shall be made by delivering to the complainant and to the defendant, or such of them as are present, a memorandum in the prescribed form, and every defendant and witness to whom a copy of the memorandum is delivered shall be under the like obligation to attend at the time and place therein mentioned, and shall be subject to the same obligations and liabilities, as if the memorandum were a summons issued by a Justice.