Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts55. Fixed non-parole period for certain sexual offences
(1) Subject to this section, where a court sentences an offender to be imprisoned for an offence against section 192(3) of the Criminal Code that is not suspended in whole or in part, the court shall fix a period under section 53(1) of not less than 70% of the period of imprisonment that the offender is to serve under the sentence.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where under section 53(1) the court considers that the fixing of a non-parole period is inappropriate.