Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Search this Act] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

JUSTICES ACT - SECT 9

Incorporation with past and future Acts and Ordinances

    (1)     Wherever any Ordinance or Act, past or future, or any rule, regulation, or by-law made under or by virtue of any Ordinance or Act:

        (a)     constitutes any act or omission a simple offence; or

        (b)     provides that any sum may be recovered, by summary proceedings or summarily, before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction or before a Justice or Justices; or

        (c)     provides that any order may be made by a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, or by a Justice or Justices in a summary way,

the Ordinance, Act, rule, regulation, or by-law shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to refer to this Act, and this Act shall for that purpose be incorporated with such other Ordinance or Act.

    (2)     When in any other Ordinance or any Act the term information is used in relation to a simple offence or to any other matter determinable by a Justice or Justices in a summary way that term shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to refer to and to mean a complaint under this Act.



AustLII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback