Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts47AC. Loitering by sexual offender
(1) In this section, sexual offence means:
(a) an offence against Division 2 of Part V of the Criminal Code;
(b) an offence against sections 188(2)(k), 192, 192B or 201 of the Criminal Code;
(c) an offence of:
(i) counselling or procuring;
(ii) aiding or abetting the commission of;
(iii) conspiring to commit;
(iv) attempting to commit; or
(v) being an accessory after the fact to,
such an offence.
(2) A person who:
(a) has been found guilty of:
(i) a sexual offence;
(ii) murder where there are reasonable grounds to believe that a sexual offence was also committed on the victim; or
(iii) an offence against section 50; and
(b) is found, without reasonable excuse, idling or lingering about in or near:
(i) a school, kindergarten or child care centre; or
(ii) a public place regularly frequented by children and in which children are present at the time of the loitering,
is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: $5,000 or imprisonment for 12 months.
(3) If a person has at any time been convicted of an offence against a law of a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth which creates an offence substantially similar to a sexual offence, the conviction for the offence against that law shall be taken for the purposes of this section to be a conviction of a sexual offence.