Australian Federal Police Act 1979
40MPrescribed persons may require AFP appointees to undergo alcohol screening tests, alcohol breath tests or prohibited drug tests etc.
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40M Prescribed persons may require AFP appointees to undergo alcohol screening tests, alcohol breath tests or prohibited drug tests etc.
(1) A person authorised to do so under the regulations may give an AFP appointee who is on duty a written direction requiring him or her to do one or more of the following: (aa) undergo an alcohol screening test; (a) undergo a breath test; (b) provide a body sample of a kind specified in the direction for a prohibited drug test; in accordance with the regulations. Providing blood sample if breath test indicates the presence of alcohol (2) If: (a) an AFP appointee, in accordance with a direction under subsection (1), undergoes a breath test; and (b) the breath test indicates the presence of alcohol; he or she may provide a sample of his or her blood for the purpose of a blood test, in accordance with the regulations. Compliance with direction (3) An AFP appointee must comply with a direction given to him or her under this section.