Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A court may impose one term of imprisonment in respect of a person found guilty of 2 or more offences.
(2) Despite subsection (1), a court must not impose an aggregate term of imprisonment under subsection (1) if one of the offences is a sexual offence.
(3) An aggregate term of imprisonment may be imposed under subsection (1) whether or not the offences are laid on complaint, information or indictment or any combination of them.
(4) A court that imposes an aggregate sentence of imprisonment under subsection (1) must indicate to the guilty person the following:
(a) the fact that an aggregate sentence is being imposed;
(b) the sentence that would have been imposed for each offence if separate sentences were imposed instead of an aggregate sentence.
(5) Subsection (3) does not limit any other requirement that a court has to record the reasons for its decision.
(6) The term, and any non-parole period, of an aggregate sentence of imprisonment imposed under subsection (1) is not revoked or varied by a later sentence of imprisonment that the same or some other court later imposes in relation to another offence.
(7) An aggregate sentence of imprisonment imposed under subsection (1) is not invalidated by a failure to comply with this section.
(8) To avoid doubt, the Local Court may impose an aggregate sentence of imprisonment under subsection (1) that does not exceed 5 years.