25Duration of breath analysis liability

25 Duration of breath analysis liability

(1)  A person's liability to submit to a breath analysis or blood-sampling under Division 1 or section 23(2) expires 3 hours after the relevant time if the breath analysis or blood-sampling is not begun within those 3 hours.

(2)  A police officer is to have regard to subsection (1) when enforcing this Act and, more specifically, is not to require a person to submit to a breath analysis under Division 1 or section 23 , or to a blood-sampling under Division 1 , unless the police officer believes that the breath analysis or blood-sampling could be practicably begun before the person's liability to submit to it expires.

(3)  However, a failure to comply with subsection (2) does not invalidate any action of a police officer.