Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) An employer may require a worker who has made a claim for compensation to submit at reasonable intervals to an examination by a medical practitioner provided and paid for by the employer.
(1A) Before each appointment for an examination under subsection (1), the employer must notify the medical practitioner who is treating the worker for the injury to which the claim relates of the name and contact details of the medical practitioner who will be examining the worker.
(1B) The employer must give the worker's treating medical practitioner a copy of the report of the medical practitioner who examined the worker.
(2) Subject to section 69, where a worker unreasonably refuses to have, or unreasonably obstructs, an examination under subsection (1), an employer may cancel or reduce the compensation payable to the worker under Subdivision B of Division 3 until the examination takes place.