Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts5. Act not to affect other rights
(1) This Act does not affect the right of a person to refuse medical or surgical treatment.
(2) This Act (other than section 6) does not affect the legal consequences (if any) of taking, or refraining from taking -
(a) therapeutic measures (not being extraordinary measures) in the case of a patient who is suffering from a terminal illness, whether or not the patient made a direction under this Act; or
(b) extraordinary measures in the case of a patient who has not made a direction under this Act.
(3) A medical practitioner incurs no liability for a decision made by him or her in good faith and without negligence as to whether a patient -
(a) is, or is not, suffering from a terminal illness;
(b) revoked, or intended to revoke, a direction under this Act; or
(c) was, or was not, at the time of making a direction under this Act, capable of understanding the nature and consequences of the direction.