229ETaking samples

229E Taking samples (1) If an authorised person proposes to take a sample in the exercise of a power under this Division, the authorised person must advise the person in possession of the sample of the reason why the sample is being taken. (2) The authorised person, at the request of the person from whom the sample was taken, must give part of the sample taken to that person. (3) If an authorised person takes a sample in the exercise of a power under this Division, the authorised person must return the sample to the person from whom it was taken within 28 days after the sample was taken, if the sample is not required for the purposes of proceedings under this Act or the regulations. S. 229E(4) inserted by No. 46/2018 s. 71. (4) Subsection (3) does not apply to a sample taken by an authorised person, and subjected to destructive testing, in the exercise of a power under this Division. S. 229F inserted by No. 21/2017 s. 46.