Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If the sheriff finds any resistance in the execution of any process, he shall take with him such assistants as he thinks desirable and go in person to the execution and, using such assistants as he thinks necessary, may arrest the resisters and bring them before a Justice of the Peace to be dealt with according to law.
(2) A person who resists:
(a) the sheriff;
(b) an officer of the sheriff; or
(c) a person acting under subsection (1) as an assistant of the sheriff,
in the execution of any process is guilty of an offence punishable on a finding of guilt by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.