NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
CRIMINAL CODE ACT 1983
As in force at 21 April 2023
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
As in force at 21 April 2023
CRIMINAL CODE ACT 1983
An Act to establish a Code of criminal law
This Act may be cited as the
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the Administrator by notice in the
Gazette .(2) Sections 406 to and including 431 of the Code shall not come into operation on the date fixed under subsection (1) unless the notice fixing that date expressly provides that those sections shall so come into operation, but the Administrator may, by a subsequent notice in the
Gazette , fix the date on which those sections should come into operation and they shall come into operation accordingly.
(1) Each Act of the State of South Australia specified in Part 1 of Schedule II is, in its application to the Territory, repealed.
(2) The Acts specified in Part 2 of Schedule II are repealed.
(1) In this Act,
the Code means the Code of criminal law contained in Schedule I.(2) For the purposes of the
Interpretation Act 1978 , the Code shall be construed as if it were a separate Act.
On and from the commencement of the respective Parts of the Code, those Parts shall be the law of the Territory in respect of the various matters therein dealt with.
(1) Subject to section 12 of the
Interpretation Act 1978 , no person is liable to be tried or punished in the Territory in respect of a matter dealt with in the Code except in accordance with the Code or another law of the Territory.(2) Where an offender is punishable under the Code or another law of the Territory, a person may be prosecuted and found guilty either under the Code or that other law.
(1) Where an act is declared by the Code to be lawful, no action shall be brought in respect of that act.
(2) Subject to subsection (1):
(a) this Act does not affect a right of action that a person would have had against another person if this Act had not been passed; and
(b) no omission from the Code of a penal provision in respect of an act or omission that before the commencement of this Act constituted an actionable wrong affects a right of action in respect of that act or omission.
8 Contempt of Court (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act or the Code does not affect the authority of a court of record to punish a person summarily for the offence commonly known as
Contempt of Court .(2) A person shall not be punished under subsection (1) and under the Code for…