Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) For the purpose of conducting an inquiry, a Health Service Inquiry Officer may enter any premises of facilities controlled by the relevant Service at any time the facility is open for business or otherwise available for entry.
(2) However, a Health Service Inquiry Officer must not enter private residential premises except with the consent of the owner or occupier of the premises.
(3) In conducting a Health Service Inquiry, a Health Service Inquiry Officer may do any of the following:
(a) inspect any premises mentioned in subsection (1);
(b) at those premises, inspect any thing that is controlled or operated by the relevant Service or the Department, or an employee in the Service or Department;
(c) require an employee or the COO of the relevant Service, or an employee in the Department, to answer questions, produce a document or thing under the person's control or give any other assistance the Health Service Inquiry Officer requires to carry out the Health Service Inquiry (including providing confidential information);
(d) examine, copy or take extracts from any account, record, document or other thing relating to a health service provided by the relevant Service (and seize or take possession of any such thing for further examination);
(e) at a facility controlled by the relevant Service, take photographs, films or audio or visual recordings necessary for the Health Service Inquiry;
(f) require any person (not limited to persons employed in the Public Health System) to produce an account, record, document or thing in the person's possession or control that relates to, or the Health Service Inquiry Officer reasonably believes relates to, the administration or management of the relevant Service;
(g) exercise any other power prescribed by regulation.
(4) A Service, the COO of the Service, and an employee in the Service or the Department, must comply with a requirement by a Health Service Inquiry Officer under subsection (3)(c) or (f).