Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts8. Notification by medical practitioner
(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette , specify -
(a) a notifiable disease in relation to which information is to be given;
(b) the information to be given in relation to a notifiable disease; and
(c) the manner in which information in relation to a notifiable disease is to be given.
(2) If a medical practitioner --
(a) diagnoses that a person is an infected person; or
(b) considers that a person is a suspect person, in relation to a notifiable disease specified under subsection (1), the medical practitioner must give to a medical officer the information required under subsection (1) to be given in relation to the disease.
(3) The medical practitioner must give the information in the manner required under subsection (1).