S 10 repealed by No 57 of 2019, s 3 and Sch 1 item 142, effective 30 August 2019. For saving provision, see note under s
9
. S 10 formerly read:
SECTION 10 Northern Territory laws to be applied
(1)
Subject to this section, in exercising jurisdiction conferred by section 9, a court is to apply the laws, whether written or unwritten, in force in the Northern Territory.
(2)
The laws referred to in subsection (1) do not include laws that are:
(a)
substantive criminal laws; or
(b)
laws of criminal investigation, procedure and evidence;
within the meaning of Schedule 1 to the
Crimes at Sea Act 2000
, but nothing in this section detracts from the operation of that Act.
(3)
A law is taken to be in force in the Northern Territory even if it applies only in part of the Northern Territory.
(4)
This section does not require a court to apply a law that is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth (including this Act).
(5)
This section does not limit the operation that any law has apart from this section.
(6)
The regulations may provide that a law, or specified provisions of a law, referred to in subsection (1) are not to be applied for the purposes of that subsection, or are to be so applied with specified modifications.
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