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ROAD SAFETY (ALCOHOL AND DRUGS) ACT 1970 - SECT 10A

10A. Blood samples to be provided in certain cases

      (1) Where a police officer reasonably believes that a person was the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident in which personal injury to any person was sustained, the police officer may require the driver to submit to the taking of a sample of blood for analysis.

      (1A) Where the driver of a vehicle that has been involved in an accident cannot be immediately identified, a police officer may require any person who was in the vehicle at the time of the accident to submit to the taking of a sample of blood for analysis.

      (2) Where a person agrees to submit to the taking of a sample of blood, the relevant provisions of this Act apply as if the person were a person who had elected to provide a sample of blood in accordance with section 10(4B).



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