Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person loitering in any public place who does not give a satisfactory account of himself when requested so to do by a member of the Police Force shall, on request by a member of the Police Force to cease loitering, cease so to loiter.
Penalty: $2,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.
(2) Where a person is loitering in a public place and a member of the Police Force believes, on reasonable grounds
(a) that an offence has been or is likely to be committed; or
(b) that the movement of pedestrian or vehicular traffic is obstructed or is about to be obstructed,
by that person or by any other person loitering in the vicinity of that person;
(c) that the safety of the person or any person in his vicinity is in danger; or
(d) that the person is interfering with the reasonable enjoyment of other persons using the public place for the purpose or purposes for which it was intended,
the member of the Police Force may require any person so loitering to cease loitering and to remove from that public place any article under his control, and a person so required shall comply with and shall not contravene the requirement.
Penalty: $2,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.