Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) An agency arrangement is an arrangement, or a series of arrangements, between the Commissioner and the chief executive officer (by whatever name known) of a relevant agency providing for the following:
(a) the transfer of possession of a batch of a dangerous drug from the possession of the relevant agency into the possession of the Police Force;
(b) that the batch of the dangerous drug is to be used for training in the Police Force;
(c) the type and extent of the training for which the batch of the dangerous drug is to be used;
(d) what is to be done with the batch of the dangerous drug at the end of the training;
(e) anything else the parties to the arrangement consider appropriate.
Example for subsection (1)
A series of arrangements could consist of a first arrangement establishing basic principles to govern the supply by the relevant agency to the Police Force of dangerous drugs to be used for training, a second arrangement establishing particular procedures to be followed for transferring particular types of dangerous drugs between the relevant agency and the Police Force, and a third arrangement providing for special circumstances applying to a batch of one of the particular types of dangerous drugs mentioned in the second arrangement.
(2) The Commissioner may enter into an agency arrangement only if the relevant agency is authorised to possess the batch of the dangerous drug the subject of the arrangement.
(3) The Commissioner must ensure the Police Force complies with an agency arrangement.