Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts53A. Compensation in respect of contact with bodily fluids
(1) Subject to this Part, where a worker -
(a) has come or may have come into contact with bodily fluid from another person in the course of his or her employment; and
(b) as a result, has a reasonable apprehension that he or she may have contracted a disease,
the worker is entitled to be paid by the worker's employer -
(c) the costs reasonably incurred by the worker for the purpose of obtaining medical tests in respect of that contact; and
(d) the worker's salary or wages in full during any absence from his or her workplace for the purpose of obtaining those medical tests.
(2) A payment made by an employer in pursuance of subsection (1)(c) or (d) is not to be taken to be an admission of liability by the employer in respect of a disease that is or may be attributable to the contact with bodily fluid.