Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts39. Offences in relation to investigations
(1) A person who -
(a) refuses access to a workplace to an officer;
(b) obstructs an officer in the exercise of his or her powers under this or any other Act or induces or attempts to induce a person to do so;
(c) fails to produce a document required under this or any other Act to be produced to an officer;
(d) conceals the location or existence of a person or any plant or substance from an officer;
(e) prevents or attempts to prevent a person from assisting an officer; or
(f) in any other way, hinders, impedes or opposes an officer in the performance of the officer's functions or exercising of his or her powers under this or any other Act,
is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: In the case of a body corporate - $5,000.
In the case of a natural person - $1,000, or imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) The occupier of, and employer at, a workplace at which an offence against subsection (1) occurs is guilty of the same offence and is subject to the same penalty unless he or she proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his or her knowledge and that he or she did not know and could not reasonably have known of the act.
(3) In this section "officer" includes a person assisting an officer.