Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A medical assessment order is an order that the person about whom it is made submit to being examined by each of 1 or 2 medical experts named in the order.
(2) A medical assessment order also has effect:
(a) to authorise each expert to examine the person; and
(b) to require each expert to:
(i) prepare a report about the person (a medical report ); and
(ii) give the report to the Attorney-General by the date stated in the order.
(3) The expert must prepare the report even if the person does not cooperate with the expert.
(4) The expert must have regard to all information given to him or her under section 80.
(5) A medical report must set out the following:
(a) the expert's opinion of the risk of the person committing another serious sex offence if he or she is not detained in custody or subject to a supervision order;
(b) the expert's reasons for that opinion;
(c) the extent to which the person cooperated with the expert.
(6) A medical expert cannot be named in a medical assessment order if he or she is a public sector employee in the Agency administering the Correctional Services Act 2004 .
Note for section 79
A medical assessment order may be made under section 25(2)(b), 36(2), 43(2), 57(2), 70(2) or 76.