Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) In this Chapter, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Act" includes an Act of the Commonwealth.
"bodily injury" includes an impairment of mental condition and a disease.
"Convention" means a Convention (other than the Hague Convention) with a foreign country, made with or made and extended to the Commonwealth or the Territory, with respect to legal proceedings in civil or criminal matters.
"corporation" means a body corporate, whether formed within or out of the Territory.
"document" includes a video tape, audio tape, disc, film or other means of recording.
"discovery" means discovery and inspection of documents or discovery by written interrogatories or oral examination.
"Hague Convention" means the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters done at the Hague on 15 November 1965.
"Hague Convention country" means a country, other than Australia, that is a party to the Hague Convention.
"judgment given" means a judgment given by the Court at the trial of a proceeding or on the hearing of an application in a proceeding.
"legal practitioner" means:
(a) an Australian legal practitioner as defined in section 6(a) of the Legal Profession Act 2006 ;
(b) the Secretary within the meaning of section 8 of the Law Officers Act 1978 ;
(c) the Secretary to the Attorney-General's Department of the Commonwealth;
(d) the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; or
(e) an AGS lawyer within the meaning of section 55I of the Judiciary Act 1903 of the Commonwealth.
"make discovery of documents" means make an affidavit of documents complying with the requirements of this Chapter, file the affidavit and serve a copy on the party or person entitled to the discovery.
"officer", in relation to a corporation, includes a director, secretary, receiver, receiver and manager, official manager, liquidator and trustee administering a compromise or arrangement made between the corporation and another person.
"order made" means an order made by the Court at the trial of a proceeding or on the hearing of an application in a proceeding.
"originating process" means process by which a proceeding is commenced, and includes a third party notice and, where a counterclaim is made against a person not previously a party to the proceeding in which the counterclaim is made, the counterclaim.
"pleading" includes an endorsement of claim on a writ which constitutes a statement of claim, and includes particulars of a pleading.
"Proper Officer" means an officer of the Court in charge of the Registry or an officer of the Court appointed by the Chief Justice in relation to the exercise of a power or the performance of a duty under this Chapter.
"question" means a question, issue or matter for determination by the Court, whether of fact or law or of fact and law, raised by the pleadings or otherwise at any stage of a proceeding by the Court, by a party or by a person, not a party, who has a sufficient interest.
"Registrar" includes an Associate Judge.
"Registry" means the Office of the Court at Darwin or Alice Springs.
"solicitor" means an Australian legal practitioner as defined in section 6(a) of the Legal Profession Act 2006 , other than a barrister as defined in that Act.
"Taxing Master" means the officer of the Court whose duty it is to tax costs in the Court.
(2) In this Chapter, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to:
(a) a Judge is a reference to the Court constituted by a Judge; and
(b) a proceeding commenced by writ includes a proceeding in respect of which an order has been made under rule 4.07.
(3) A reference in this Chapter to a Form of a particular alphanumeric designation means the form with that designation as approved by the Chief Justice and published on the Court's website.