119Authorised sample takers—protection from liability

119 Authorised sample takers—protection from liability

119 Authorised sample takers—protection from liability

No civil or criminal liability is incurred by an authorised sample taker, or by a person acting at the direction or under the supervision of an authorised sample taker, in relation to anything properly and necessarily done in the course of taking a sample of blood or urine from a person, if the authorised sample taker—

(a) believed on reasonable grounds that the authorised sample taker was required under this Regulation to take the sample of blood or urine from the person, or

(b) was informed by a test supervisor or police officer that the person was someone from whom the authorised sample taker was required under this Regulation to take the sample of blood or urine.

cl 119: Rep 2017 (595), Sch 1 [41]. Ins 2021 (483), Sch 1[2].