Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) An authorised prescriber commits an offence if the prescriber:
(a) issues a prescription for the supply of a Schedule 4 or 8 substance for administering to a person (the patient ) for the patient's therapeutic use or treating a medical condition of the patient; and
(b) gives the prescription to a person (the recipient ) other than:
(i) the patient; or
(ii) a carer of the patient; or
(iii) a guardian of the patient; or
(iv) a prescribed person.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if:
(a) the patient is the partner of the recipient; and
(b) the substance is a Schedule 4 substance for treating the partner for the medical condition of chlamydia; and
(c) the prescribed conditions apply to the issue of the prescription.
(3) In addition, the authorised prescriber is not civilly liable in relation to the issue of the prescription.
(4) Without limiting subsection (3), issuing and giving the prescription does not constitute a breach of professional etiquette or ethics or a departure from accepted standards of professional conduct.
(5) In this section:
"carer", see section 5 of the Carer's Recognition Act 2006 .
"partner", of a person, includes:
(a) the person's spouse; and
(b) the person's de facto partner; and
(c) someone with whom the person is in a sexual relationship.
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulation.