Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) The Regulations may deal with any of the following:
(a) any matters in connection with the counselling scheme, including the exercise of discretions by the Director;
(b) any matters in connection with the financial assistance scheme, including the exercise of discretions by the Director or an assessor;
(c) procedures relating to medical examinations and reports ordered by an assessor and the costs and payments for those examinations and reports;
(d) the assessment of financial loss, including the following:
(i) the method of calculating loss of earnings;
(ii) the special circumstances in which an assessor may award financial assistance to assist a victim of a violent act to recover from the effects of the violent act;
(e) awards for compensable violent acts and compensable injuries, including the following:
(i) different awards for different categories of a compensable violent act or compensable injury;
(ii) the assessment of a standard amount for more than one compensable injury directly resulting from the same violent act;
(iii) the reduction of a standard amount, including for the aggravation, acceleration, exacerbation or deterioration of an existing condition;
(iv) procedures to establish whether a person has a compensable injury or the degree of seriousness of a compensable injury;
(v) choices available to an applicant for an award;
(f) increased awards of financial assistance;
(g) requirements for refunds of financial assistance.