Summary Offences Act 1923 (NT)

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NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1923

As in force at 3 March 2023

TABLE OF PROVISIONS NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

As in force at 3 March 2023

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1923

An Act to provide for certain criminal offences

Part IPreliminary 1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Summary Offences Act 1923.

2Commencement

This Act shall commence on a day to be fixed by the Administrator by notice in the Gazette of the Northern Territory.

3Application of certain Acts of the State of South Australia to cease
  • (1)

    The Police Act, 1869 (No. 15 of 1869-70), and the Police Act Amendment Act1898-9 (No. 715 of 1898-9) of the State of South Australia shall cease to apply to the Northern Territory as from the commencement of this Ordinance.

  • (2)

    Nothing in subsection (1) shall affect any right, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any Act therein referred to, or any penalty, forfeiture or punishment in respect of any offence committed against any such Act, or any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any such right, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid.

5Interpretation

In this Ordinance, unless the contrary intention appears:

Commissioner means the Commissioner of Police appointed under the Police Administration Act 1978.

loiter means to idle or linger about.

member means member of the Police Force.

night-time means the interval between 9 o’clock in the evening and 6 o’clock in the morning.

Police Force means the Police Force of the Northern Territory.

public place or place of public resort includes:

  • (a)

    every place to which free access is permitted to the public, with the express or tacit consent of the owner or occupier thereof; and

  • (b)

    every place to which the public are admitted on payment of money, the test of the admittance being the payment of the money only; and

  • (c)

    every road, street, footway, court, alley or thoroughfare which the public are allowed to use, notwithstanding that the road, street, footway, court, alley or thoroughfare may be formed on private property.

undue noise means any noise that causes unreasonable distress, annoyance or irritation to any person by reason of its level or character or the time at which it is made.

Part VIIOffences generally 46AForcible entry

A person who, in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace or reasonable apprehension of a breach of the peace, enters, whether or not he is so entitled to enter, land which is in the actual and peaceable possession of another is guilty of an offence.

Penalty:          Imprisonment for 12 months.

46BForcible detainer

A person who, being in actual possession of land without being entitled by law to possession, holds possession of it in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace or reasonable apprehension of a breach of the peace against a person entitled by law to the possession of…

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