Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts46. Reports to be made available
(1) Unless the Court otherwise directs, a copy of a report furnished under section 45 shall, as soon as practicable after it is prepared, be made available to the Minister, the child to whom it relates and the parents, guardians or persons having the custody of the child and the legal practitioners, if any, representing them.
(2) The Court may, if it thinks fit, direct that a copy of a report furnished under section 45 or a specified part of it shall not be made available to the child to whom it relates if in its opinion the report or that part would be likely to cause him distress.
(3) A person furnishing a report under section 45 may be called as a witness and examined by way of cross-examination and re-examination by a person entitled under subsection (1) to receive a copy of it.
(4) A child or a parent, guardian or person having the care and custody of the child may give evidence, or call witnesses, to rebut the contents of a report furnished under section 45.