Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Section 155(1) does not apply to a disclosure of the results of an analysis of a blood sample under this Subdivision by a person who conducted the analysis, if the disclosure is to one or more of the following:
(a) an affected member in relation to the analysis;
(b) the transferor;
(c) if the transferor is a protected person – a responsible person for the protected person;
(d) if the transferor is a deceased person – the senior next of kin of the transferor;
(e) a medical practitioner, nurse or other health professional involved in treating, or providing care for, an affected member or the transferor;
(f) a psychiatrist, psychologist or social worker providing counselling for an affected member or the transferor;
(g) a person, or a person in a class of persons, prescribed by regulation for this section.
(2) Section 155(1) does not apply to a person mentioned in subsection (1) who discloses information (the secondary disclosure ) disclosed to the person under this section:
(a) if the secondary disclosure is to another person mentioned in subsection (1); or
(b) if the person is an affected member – if the secondary disclosure is not a public disclosure to the media made in a way that would reveal the identity of the transferor; or
(c) if the person is a transferor – if the secondary disclosure is not a public disclosure to the media made in a way that would reveal the identity of an affected member.
(3) In this section:
senior next of kin , see section 3 of the Coroners Act 1993 .