Everyone has the right to make decisions about health treatment they receive from a health care provider.
All adults are presumed to have capacity to consent to health care unless there is evidence of impaired decision making capacity.
The Health Care Decision Making Act 2023 addresses the gap in Northern Territory law concerning health care decision making for people who have lost some or all of their capacity to make their own health care decisions. It also governs the provision of urgent health care without consent to adults and children following the repeal of the Emergency Medical Operations Act 1973.
More information can be found via the Office of the Public Guardian & Trustee