Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts24. Certain contracts and arrangements not to be entered into
(1) Subject to this section, no person shall enter, agree to enter, offer to enter, hold himself out as being willing to enter or inquire whether a person is willing to enter, into a contract or arrangement under which a person agrees, for valuable consideration, whether given or to be given to himself or to another person, for the sale or supply of tissue from his body or from the body of another person, whether before or after his death or the death of the other person, as the case may be.
Penalty: $500 or imprisonment for 3 months.
(2) A contract or arrangement entered into in contravention of this section is void.
(3) Where he considers it desirable by reason of special circumstances so to do, the Minister may, by instrument in writing, authorize a person, subject to such conditions and restrictions as are specified in the instrument, to enter into a contract or arrangement that would, but for the approval, be void by virtue of subsection (2), and nothing in subsection (1) or (2) applies to or in relation to a contract or arrangement entered into in accordance with an approval under this subsection.
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to or in relation to the sale or supply of tissue, not being tissue obtained under a contract or arrangement that is by subsection (2) void, if the tissue has been subjected to processing or treatment and the sale or supply is made for use, in accordance with the directions of a medical practitioner, for therapeutic or scientific purposes.
(5) Subsection (1) does not apply to or in relation to a contract or arrangement providing only for the reimbursement of any expenses necessarily incurred by a person in relation to the removal of tissue in accordance with this Act.