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Corrections Management Act 2007
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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.