Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) A person is not civilly or criminally liable for an act done or omitted to be done by the person in good faith in the exercise of a power or performance of a function as any of the following:
(a) the CEO;
(b) the clinical director;
(c) a senior assessment clinician;
(d) a senior treatment clinician;
(e) an authorised officer;
(f) a transport officer;
(g) a testing officer;
(h) a community visitor;
(i) a member of a community visitors panel.
(2) In addition, a person is not civilly or criminally liable for an act done, or omitted to be done, by the person in good faith and exercising due diligence in the course of providing treatment to a person to whom a mandatory treatment order applies.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not affect any liability the Territory would, apart from that subsection, have for the act or omission.
(4) In this section:
"exercise", of a power, includes the purported exercise of the power.
"performance", of a function, includes the purported performance of the function.