Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act unless the contrary intention appears:
"Aboriginal" means a person who is a member of the aboriginal race of Australia.
"administration" means probate, granted in the Territory, of the will of a deceased person or letters of administration, granted in the Territory, of the estate of a deceased person, whether with or without a will annexed, and whether granted for general, special or limited purposes and includes an order to collect and administer the estate of a deceased person granted to the Curator of Deceased Estates or the Public Trustee.
"administrator", in relation to the estate of a deceased person, means a person to whom administration has been granted in respect of the deceased person.
"deceased person" includes a person in respect of whose estate there has been made a grant of administration expressed to be made on presumption of the death of the person:
"intestate" has the same meaning as in section 61(1) of the Administration and Probate Act 1969 .
"the Court" means the Supreme Court.
"will" includes a codicil.
(2) Where probate of a will or letters of administration of an estate granted outside the Territory is sealed with the seal of the Court in pursuance of section 111 of the Administration and Probate Act 1969 , the probate as so sealed or the administration as so sealed, as the case requires, shall be of the will, or letters of administration of the estate granted in the Territory on the date on which it was so sealed.