Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts19. Authority to remove tissue where body of deceased not at a hospital
(1) Subject to this Part, where the body of a deceased person is in a place other than a hospital, the senior available next of kin of the deceased person may, by instrument in writing, authorize the removal of tissue from the body of the deceased person -
(a) for the purpose of the transplantation of the tissue to the body of a living person; or
(b) for use of the tissue for other therapeutic purposes or for medical or scientific purposes.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where the senior available next of kin of the deceased person has reason to believe that -
(a) the deceased person had, during his lifetime, expressed an objection to the removal of tissue from his body and had not withdrawn his objection; or
(b) another next of kin of the same or a higher order of the classes listed in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of "senior available next of kin" has an objection to the removal of tissue from the body of the deceased person.
(3) Subject to this Part, where a deceased person, during his lifetime, expressed the wish for, or consented to, the removal after his death of tissue from his body for the purpose referred to in subsection (1)(a) or a use referred to in subsection (1)(b) and the wish had not been withdrawn or the consent revoked, the removal of tissue from the body of the deceased person in accordance with the wish or consent is, by force of this subsection, hereby authorized.