Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts21. Certificate of specialist, &c., required in certain circumstances
(1) Where the respiration and the circulation of the blood of a person are being maintained by artificial means, tissue shall not be removed from the body of the person for the purpose referred to in section 22(c) or a use referred to in section 22(d) unless 2 medical practitioners, each of whom has been for a period of not less than 5 years a medical practitioner, each of whom has carried out a clinical examination of the person and one of whom is a medical specialist, have each certified in writing that, in his opinion, at the time of the examination, irreversible cessation of all function of the brain of the person has occurred.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), any period during which a person who is a medical practitioner practised as a medical practitioner, however described, under a law in force in a State or Territory, not being the Northern Territory, of Australia or in a country outside Australia shall be taken into account in calculating the period of 5 years referred to in that subsection.
(3) In this section "medical specialist" means an anaesthetist, a general surgeon, neurologist, neurosurgeon or physician.