Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts21. Death benefits may be paid in respect of certain injured persons
Where a person who, if he had died in or as a result of the accident would have been a qualifying person is a full-time patient in a hospital or other institution because of his injuries received in or as a result of an accident and, in the opinion of the Board, he is likely permanently to remain a full-time patient in a hospital or institution, the Board may, at the written request of the spouse of the person, determine that this Part shall apply to and in relation to that person, and on that determination being made the person shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to have died on the date of the determination and to have been a qualifying person on that date.