Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts78K. Making of perpetrators' program orders
(1) Where a court finds a person guilty of:
(a) a domestic violence offence; or
(b) an offence under section 120 of the Domestic and Family Violence Act ;
the court may order the offender to participate in a perpetrators' program on the terms and conditions specified in the order.
(2) A court may only make an order under subsection (1) if the court receives a report from the Director stating:
(a) that the offender is a suitable person to participate in the perpetrators' program; and
(b) that there is a place available in the perpetrators' program for the offender.
(3) A court:
(a) may only make an order under subsection (1) after it has made any other sentencing order that it thinks fit or that it is required to make in relation to the offence; and
(b) in making any other sentencing order, must not take into account the fact that it can make an order under subsection (1).
(4) A court must not make an order under subsection (1) if the offender has been found guilty of the crime of murder.
(5) A court may make an order under subsection (1) without the offender's consent.