Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where the sheriff or any other person employed in collecting by process from any court a debt due to the Territory receives from a person a sum as being due to the Territory, the sheriff or the first mentioned person shall give the last mentioned person a receipt for that sum and the sheriff shall, on becoming aware of the receipt, without delay take all necessary steps to procure in respect of that sum the effective discharge of the person paying it.
(2) A person receiving a sum to which subsection (1) applies shall account first to the sheriff and the sheriff shall give a receipt for the sum.