Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where:
(a) a person has been sentenced (whether at first instance or on appeal) by a court (including the Supreme Court) for an offence; or
(b) the sentencing court was the Local Court, application is made to the Supreme Court for relief or remedy in the nature of certiorari to remove the proceeding into the Supreme Court;
and the Supreme Court determines that the sentence imposed was beyond the power of the sentencing court or its own power, if it was the sentencing court, it may, instead of quashing the sentence, amend the sentence by substituting for the sentence imposed a sentence which the sentencing court had power to impose.
(2) Unless the Supreme Court otherwise directs, a sentence of imprisonment imposed by it under subsection (1) commences on the day on which the sentence imposed in the earlier proceeding purported to take effect but in calculating the term to be served under the sentence any time during which the offender was at large (whether on bail or otherwise) must be disregarded.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) extend and apply, with necessary changes, to any order made on, but not forming part of, the sentence of an offender as if reference in those subsections to a sentence included a reference to such an order.