CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 134 Alcohol and drug testing of detainees
CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 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.
(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.
(6) In this section:
"randomly selected "means chosen by a computer programmed to choose names randomly from the register of detainees.