Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts26C. Liability of hospitals and medical practitioners, &c.
In a specified action against -
(a) a hospital or other body at whose premises blood supplied by the Society or a blood product derived from blood supplied by the Society is administered to a patient; or
(b) a medical practitioner, or a person acting on behalf of a medical practitioner, who administered to a patient or authorized the administration to a patient of blood supplied by the Society or a blood product derived from blood supplied by the Society,
it is a defence that -
(c) at the time the blood or blood product was administered there was attached to the container in which the blood or blood product was contained a certificate purporting to be signed by the person in charge of the laboratory at which a sample of the blood was tested, stating that a sample of the blood or, in the case of the blood product, a sample of each unit of blood from which the blood product was derived, was tested, using approved equipment and in accordance with an approved method, for the presence of any pathogen capable of causing the relevant transmittable disease and the result of the test was negative; or
(d) the Society complied with the specified requirements or caused them to be complied with in respect of the taking of the relevant blood and the testing, processing, and handling of that blood or of blood products derived from it.