Northern Territory Numbered Acts

ALCOHOL MANDATORY TREATMENT ACT 2013 (NO 17 OF 2013) - SECT 87

The functions of the principal community visitor are as follows:

    (a)     to establish standards, principles and protocols for community visitors to exercise their powers and perform their functions;

    (b)     to oversee the preparation and circulation of publications to persons detained in assessment facilities or treatment centres, treatment providers and the public generally explaining the role of community visitors and how they may be contacted;

    (c)     to ensure community visitors exercise their powers and perform their functions in accordance with the established standards, principles and protocols;

    (d)     to ensure that each treatment centre is inspected by a community visitors panel once every 6 months.