Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts5. Abolition of common law rights
(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.