Tasmanian Consolidated Regulations Tasmanian Consolidated Regulations
(1) For the purposes of the relevant enactment, a container containing part of a sample of blood that is delivered to a police officer is to be kept –
(a) in the police officer's possession, if he or she does not detain the person from whom the sample is taken after the officer has charged the person with an offence under the Act; or
(b) at a police station in a place of safety, if that person is detained after being so charged.
(2) The officer in charge of the police station at which a person is charged with an offence under the Act and at which that person's sample of blood has been taken is prescribed as the person to whom a request referred to in section 13A(3) of the Main Act or, as the case may be, section 34(4) of the Related Act is to be made.
(3) In this regulation –
"delivered" means –(a) in the case of a blood sample taken under and for the Main Act, delivered pursuant to section 13(5B) of that Act; and
(b) in the case of a blood sample taken under and for the Related Act, delivered pursuant to section 32(6) of that Act;
"police station" includes, in the case of the Related Act, a police vessel or a shore facility used in connection with the operation of police vessels;
"relevant enactment" means –(a) for a blood sample taken under and for the Main Act, section 13A(1) of the Main Act; and
(b) for a blood sample taken under and for the Related Act, section 34(2) of the Related Act.