NT Legislation
The Ministers and the Department are responsible for administering the areas of government relating to social welfare, community grants for health related organisations, health including hospitals and medical services, human quarantine, food standards, alcohol and other drug dependence, aged and disability services, children's services and mental health services.
The portfolios of the Minister for Health and the Minister for Family and Community Services include responsibility for the following Acts, the first two of which are administered through independent supporting agencies, the remainder by the Department of Health and Community Services.
Acts administered by Independent Agencies
- Health and Community Services Complaints Act
- Menzies School of Health Research Act
Acts administered by the Department of Health and Community Services
The following Acts are accessible from the Chief Minister's website of NT Legislation.
- Adoption of Children Act
- Adult Guardianship Act
- Cancer (Registration) Act
- Carers Recognition Act
- Community Welfare Act
- Disability Services Act
- Emergency Medical Operations Act
- Food Act
- Guardianship of Infants Act
- Health Practitioners Act
- Hospital Management Boards Act
- Human Tissue Transplant Act
- Medical Services Act
- Mental Health and Related Services Act
- Natural Death Act
- Notifiable Diseases Act
- Poisons and Dangerous Drugs Act
- Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Act
- Public Health Act
- Radiation (Safety Control) Act
- Radiographers Act
- Therapeutic Goods and Cosmetics Act
- Tobacco Control Act
- Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Act
Regulations administered by the Department of Health and Community Services
- Adoption of Children Regulations
- Cancer (Registration) Regulations
- Community Welfare Regulations
- Community Welfare (Child Care) Regulations
- Natural Death Regulations
- Poisons and Dangerous Drugs Regulations
- Public Health (Barbers' Shops) Regulations
- Public Health (Cervical Cytology) Regulations
- Public Health (Medical and Dental Inspection of School Children) Regulations
- Public Health (General Sanitation, Mosquito Prevention, Rat Exclusion and Prevention) Regulations
- Public Health (Night-Soil, Garbage, Cesspits, Wells And Water) Regulations
- Public Health (Noxious Trades) Regulations
- Public Health (Nuisance Prevention) Regulations
- Public Health (Shops, Boarding-Houses, Hostels and Hotels) Regulations
- Radiation (Safety Control) Regulations
- Tobacco Control Regulations
- Volatile Substance Abuse Prevention Regulations