Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person shall not be subject to civil or criminal action or professional disciplinary action for anything done in good faith and without negligence in compliance with this Act, including being present when a patient takes a substance prescribed for or supplied to the patient as the result of assistance under this Act to end the patient's life.
(2) A professional organisation or association or health care provider shall not subject a person to censure, discipline, suspension, loss of licence, certificate or other authority to practise, loss of privilege, loss of membership or other penalty for anything that, in good faith and without negligence, was done or refused to be done by the person and which may under this Act lawfully be done or refused to be done.
(3) A request by a patient for assistance under this Act, or giving of such assistance in good faith by a medical practitioner in compliance with this Act, shall not constitute neglect for any purpose of law or alone constitute or indicate a disability for the purposes of an application under section 8 of the Adult Guardianship Act 1988 .
(4) A health care provider is not under any duty, whether by contract, statute or other legal requirement, to participate in the provision to a patient of assistance under this Act, and if a health care provider is unable or unwilling to carry out a direction of a medical practitioner for the purpose of the medical practitioner assisting a patient under this Act and the patient transfers his or her care to another health care provider, the former health care provider shall, on request, transfer a copy of the patient's relevant medical records to the new health care provider.