Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) For the purposes of the Minister's consideration of a prisoner's request, the Director may (or, where the Minister so requests, shall) supply to the Minister such medical, psychiatric or psychological reports about or assessments of the prisoner as are or may be made available to the Director.
(2) There shall be included in a report about or assessment of a prisoner furnished or caused to be furnished under this regulation for the information of the Minister, such further information available to the person or authority furnishing the report or assessment, or causing it to be furnished, as that person or authority considers may be of assistance to the Minister in considering the prisoner's request.
(3) Without affecting the Minister's powers to form an opinion or exercise a discretion under Part II of the Act, the Minister, in considering a prisoner's request, may have regard to:
(a) whether the statutory period during which an appeal against the prisoner's conviction or sentence may be made has expired;
(b) whether an appeal against the prisoner's conviction or sentence has been finally dealt with;
(c) whether, so far as the Minister is aware, every complaint or information alleging an offence by the prisoner against the law in force in the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth has been finally dealt with;
(d) whether a petition for an inquiry, or an inquiry, under the law in force in the Territory into the prisoner's conviction or sentence is pending; and
(e) the term of imprisonment remaining to be served by the prisoner compared with the estimated period for dealing with the request and issuing and executing an order of transfer.