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Australian Federal Police Regulations 1979
5APrescribed persons may require AFP employees to undergo alcohol screening tests, alcohol breath tests or prohibited drug tests etc.
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#### 5A Prescribed persons may require AFP employees to undergo alcohol screening tests, alcohol breath tests or prohibited drug tests etc.
(1) For the purposes of paragraph 40J(1)(aa) of the Act, an authorised person (within the meaning of regulation 13E) may give an AFP employee who is suspended from duty a written direction requiring him or her to do one or more of the following:
(a) undergo an alcohol screening test;
(b) undergo a breath test;
(c) provide a body sample of a kind specified in the direction for a prohibited drug test.
(2) An AFP employee must comply with a direction given to him or her under subregulation (1).
(3) If:
(a) in accordance with a direction under subregulation (1), an AFP employee undergoes a breath test; and
(b) the breath test indicates the presence of alcohol;
the employee may provide a sample of his or her blood for the purpose of a blood test, in accordance with these Regulations.
> Note: Subdivision 2.4B.3 sets out rules about conducting blood tests and prohibited drug tests.