MOTOR ACCIDENTS (COMPENSATION) ACT 1979 - SECT 5 Abolition of common law rights

MOTOR ACCIDENTS (COMPENSATION) ACT 1979 - SECT 5

    (1)     An action for damages does not lie (either at common law or by statute) for the death of, or injury to, a person arising from a motor accident that occurs in the Territory.

    (2)     It is the Legislative Assembly's intention:

        (a)     that this section should apply within and outside the Territory; and

        (b)     that it should apply outside the Territory to the full extent of the extraterritorial legislative capacity of the Territory.