sec.24Time limit on giving direction to provide specimen for preliminary testing

### sec.24 Time limit on giving direction to provide specimen for preliminary testing This section applies if a rail safety worker is directed under section 22 or 23 to provide a specimen for preliminary testing. The preliminary test must be commenced as soon as practicable and, in any event, within 3 hours after the relevant time. For subsection (2) , the preliminary test commences when the rail safety worker is first presented with the device used for the preliminary test for the purpose of providing the specimen. In this section— relevant time means— when the authorised person found the rail safety worker doing the thing mentioned in the national law , section 126 (1) (a) to (e) or 127 (1) (a) to (e) ; or when the rail safety worker is reasonably suspected by the authorised person to have been doing the thing mentioned in the national law , section 126 (1) (a) to (e) or 127 (1) (a) to (e) . (sec.24-ssec.1) This section applies if a rail safety worker is directed under section 22 or 23 to provide a specimen for preliminary testing. (sec.24-ssec.2) The preliminary test must be commenced as soon as practicable and, in any event, within 3 hours after the relevant time. (sec.24-ssec.3) For subsection (2) , the preliminary test commences when the rail safety worker is first presented with the device used for the preliminary test for the purpose of providing the specimen. (sec.24-ssec.4) In this section— relevant time means— when the authorised person found the rail safety worker doing the thing mentioned in the national law , section 126 (1) (a) to (e) or 127 (1) (a) to (e) ; or when the rail safety worker is reasonably suspected by the authorised person to have been doing the thing mentioned in the national law , section 126 (1) (a) to (e) or 127 (1) (a) to (e) . - (a) when the authorised person found the rail safety worker doing the thing mentioned in the national law , section 126 (1) (a) to (e) or 127 (1) (a) to (e) ; or - (b) when the rail safety worker is reasonably suspected by the authorised person to have been doing the thing mentioned in the national law , section 126 (1) (a) to (e) or 127 (1) (a) to (e) .