Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person appointed as a surveillance officer under the Prisons (Correctional Services) Act is a surveillance officer for this Act.
(2) A probation officer, and the Director, are also surveillance officers for this Act.
(3) The functions of a surveillance officer are to monitor the compliance of a youth who is the subject of an alternative detention order with the terms and conditions of the order.
(4) A surveillance officer who is a probation officer may, at any time and without a warrant, enter premises or a place in or at which a youth is, in accordance with an alternative detention order, residing and:
(a) search those premises or any building at that place, or the youth, for the purposes of determining whether the youth is in breach of the order; or
(b) place, install, inspect or retrieve a monitoring device in or at those premises or that place.
(5) A surveillance officer who is a probation officer may, at any time, require a youth who is the subject of an alternative detention order to undergo such tests as the surveillance officer considers appropriate to determine whether the youth is in breach of the order.
(6) A surveillance officer referred to in subsection (1) may, as directed from time to time by the Director, carry out or exercise any of the functions and powers of a surveillance officer who is also a probation officer.