Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) This section applies in relation to a person in custody in a prison or detention centre in another participating jurisdiction under the law of a participating jurisdiction.
(2) If the person is required or entitled to be present at proceedings of a judicial body of the Territory:
(a) the judicial body or person constituting it for the proceedings; or
(b) an officer of the judicial body authorised in accordance with its procedures; or
(c) the person in charge of the prison or detention centre;
may, by written order, direct the person be brought up to the place named in the order.
(3) The order can only be made if the person has a connection with a cross-border region that is partly in the participating jurisdiction in which the person is in custody.
(4) If 2 or more people constitute the judicial body for the proceedings, subsection (2)(a) applies to each of them.
(5) In this section:
"judicial body", of the Territory, means a court, tribunal or other body or person that under the law of the Territory has judicial or quasi judicial functions or otherwise acts judicially, and includes a Board of Inquiry under the Inquiries Act .
"proceedings", of a judicial body of the Territory, includes anything done in the performance of the functions of the judicial body.