Northern Territory Numbered Acts

CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE ACT 2009 (NO 1 OF 2009) - SECT 54

    (1)     Subsection (2) applies if:

    (a)     a police officer of another participating jurisdiction (the arresting jurisdiction ) arrests a person under the law of the arresting jurisdiction:

        (i)     whether with or without a warrant; and

        (ii)     whether in the Territory or another participating jurisdiction; and

    (b)     the person has a connection with a cross-border region.

    (2)     A police officer of the arresting jurisdiction may:

    (a)     keep the person in custody in the Territory; and

    (b)     while the person is in custody, take the person to a police station, court or other place in the Territory for any purpose authorised under the law of the arresting jurisdiction as applied by its cross-border laws.

    (3)     The law of the Territory does not apply in relation to the custody.