Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister may, by Gazette notice, declare any place, premises or institution to be a prison or police prison.
(2) Subject to this section, prisons and police prisons must be used for the reception and safe keeping of prisoners or other persons who are otherwise detained in lawful custody.
(3) The Director is responsible for the administration and control of police prisons only when a prisoner is received or kept in that police prison.
(4) The police officer for the time being in charge of a police prison is an officer for this Act.
(5) In a prison, convicted prisoners not yet sentenced and prisoners on remand must be kept separate and apart from prisoners under sentence, unless the Minister otherwise directs.