(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.