Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Family Court" means the Family Court of Australia.
"Federal Court" means the Federal Court of Australia.
"Full Court", in relation to a Supreme Court of a State, includes a court of the State to which appeals lie from a single judge of that Supreme Court.
"judgment" means a judgment, decree or order, whether final or interlocutory.
"Northern Territory matter" means a matter:
(a) in which the Supreme Court has jurisdiction otherwise than by reason of a law of the Commonwealth or of another State; or
(b) removed to the Supreme Court under section 8.
"party", in relation to a proceeding, includes a person who intervenes in the proceeding.
"proceeding" does not include a criminal proceeding.
special federal matter has the same meaning as in the Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Act 1987 of the Commonwealth.
"State" means the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory or a State of the Commonwealth.
"State Family Court", in relation to a State, means a court of that State to which section 41 of the Family Law Act 1975 of the Commonwealth applied by virtue of a Proclamation made under section 41(2) of that Act.
"Territory" does not include the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory.
(2) A reference in this Act, other than a reference in section 4(3), to the Supreme Court of a State includes, if there is a State Family Court of that State, a reference to that State Family Court.