Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered ActsAfter section 34(8)
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(9) If the practitioner does not make a recommendation for psychiatric examination of a person in relation to whom a request for assessment was made by a senior assessment clinician in accordance with Part 2 of the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act , the practitioner must:
(a) refer the person back to the senior assessment clinician for another assessment under the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act and notify the senior assessment clinician accordingly; and
(b) if the person was not assessed at an assessment facility – arrange for the person to be taken to an assessment facility in accordance with the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act .
(10) In this section:
"assessment facility", see section 5 of the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act .
"senior assessment clinician", see section 5 of the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act .