Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"adult" means a person who has attained the age of 18 years.
"Court" means the Local Court.
"disability" means an intellectual disability.
"Executive Officer" means the Adult Guardianship Executive Officer appointed under section 7.
"guardian" means an adult guardian appointed pursuant to this Act and includes the Public Guardian.
"intellectual disability" means a disability in an adult resulting from an illness, injury, congenital disorder or organic deterioration or of unknown origin and by reason of which the person appears to be unable to make reasonable judgments or informed decisions relevant to daily living.
"near relative" of a person, means:
(a) a parent of the person;
(b) a spouse of the person;
(c) a de facto partner of the person; or
(d) another relative of the person.
"Public Guardian" means the Minister, and includes the person or, where there is more than one, each person to whom the powers and functions of Public Guardian have been delegated by the Minister under section 6.
"represented person" means an adult in respect of whom an adult guardianship order is in effect.
(2) In the definition of near relative :
(a) the reference to another relative is a reference to a person connected by blood relationship, marriage, de facto relationship, adoption or custom, and for this purpose persons are connected:
(i) by blood relationship if within the fourth degree of relationship;
(ii) by marriage if one is married to the other or to a person who is connected by blood relationship to the other;
(iia) by de facto relationship if one is in a de facto relationship with the other or with a person who is connected by blood relationship to the other;
(iii) by adoption if one has been adopted as the child of the other or as a child of a person who is within the third degree of relationship to the other; and
(iv) by custom if the relationship is generally regarded in a community as being akin to one of blood, marriage or adoption; and
(b) the reference to the spouse of a person includes a reference to a person who is not legally married to the first-mentioned person but who lives with that person on a bona fide domestic basis.
(3) A person shall not be considered to be under an intellectual disability by reason only that the person:
(a) expresses or refuses or fails to express a particular political, anarchic, religious, irreligious, legal, illegal, moral, or immoral opinion; or
(b) engages in or refuses or fails to engage in a particular political, anarchic, religious, irreligious, legal, illegal, moral, or immoral activity.
(4) Except as provided in section 21A(2) of the Powers of Attorney Act , nothing in this Act shall derogate from the provisions of that Act.