Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) A senior assessment clinician at an assessment facility, and the senior treatment clinician for a treatment centre, must ensure a person detained at the facility or centre and the person's primary contact and guardian (if any) are given oral or written information about the role of the community visitors program under this Part, including the following:
(a) the person's right to be visited by a community visitor;
(b) the person's right, and the right of the person's primary contact and guardian (if any), to contact a community visitor;
(c) how to contact a community visitor.
(2) A person detained at an assessment facility or treatment centre may ask to be contacted by a community visitor.
(3) A senior assessment clinician at the assessment facility, or the senior treatment clinician for the treatment centre, must send the request to the principal community visitor as soon as practicable and, in any event, not later than 24 hours after it is made.
(4) The principal community visitor must ensure a community visitor contacts, or attempts to contact, the person before the end of the next business day after the principal community visitor receives the request.
(5) In this section:
"contact" includes contact by telephone or email.