Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) Except as provided by this section, a cross-examiner must not question a witness about a previous representation alleged to have been made by a person other than the witness.
(2) A cross-examiner may question a witness about the representation and its contents if:
(a) evidence of the representation has been admitted; or
(b) the court is satisfied that it will be admitted.
(3) If subsection (2) does not apply and the representation is contained in a document, the document may only be used to question a witness as follows:
(a) the document must be produced to the witness;
(b) if the document is a tape recording, or any other kind of document from which sounds are reproduced – the witness must be provided with the means (for example, headphones) to listen to the contents of the document without other persons present at the cross-examination hearing those contents;
(c) the witness must be asked whether, having examined (or heard) the contents of the document, the witness stands by the evidence that he or she has given;
(d) neither the cross-examiner nor the witness is to identify the document or disclose any of its contents.
(4) A document that is so used may be marked for identification.