Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if a person makes a victim submission but has not given written consent for it to be disclosed to the offender.
(2) Neither a court, the Director of the CVSU nor the Attorney-General may disclose the submission to the offender.
(3) A court:
(a) may have regard to the submission; and
(b) in deciding the weight to be given to the statement, may have regard to the absence of consent and the non-disclosure to the offender.
(4) A court may disclose the substance of the statement to the offender, or the offender's legal representative, but only if satisfied that doing so could not reasonably be expected to lead to the identification of the victim or the registered person.