134Alcohol and drug testing of detainees

134 Alcohol and drug testing of detainees (1) The director-general may direct the following to provide a stated kind of test sample: (a) a detainee; (b) a number of randomly selected detainees at a correctional centre. (2) The director-general, or a doctor, or nurse, appointed under section 22 (Health practitioners—non-therapeutic functions), may give a detainee a direction about the way a detainee must provide the test sample. (3) However— (a) a direction under this section must be consistent with any requirement prescribed by an operating procedure for this section; and (b) only a doctor, or nurse, appointed under section 22 (Health practitioners—non-therapeutic functions) may take a blood sample.

Alcohol and drug testing Part 9.6 Alcohol and drug testing—detainees Division 9.6.2 (4) A doctor or nurse who takes a test sample from a detainee must give the sample to a corrections officer. (5) The director-general must give the detainee notice of the results of any test conducted on the test sample as soon as practicable after the director-general receives them. randomly selected means chosen by a computer programmed to choose names randomly from the register of detainees.