Victorian Consolidated Regulations

ROAD SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1999 - SECT 205

Procedures after taking blood samples

205. Procedures after taking blood samples



(1) A registered medical practitioner or an approved health professional who
takes a blood sample must ensure that-

   (a)  the sample of blood is placed in 3 dry containers, each containing
        approximately the same amount of blood; and

   (b)  each container is vacuum sealed or sealed with a septum seal; and

   (c)  each container in which the sample is placed bears a label stating-

   (i)  that the container holds a specific anti-coagulant and preservative
        such as potassium oxalate and sodium fluoride; and

   (ii) the name of the chemist, laboratory or pharmaceutical organisation
        that prepared it; and

   (d)  each container has attached to it a label bearing the signature of the
        registered medical practitioner or approved health professional, the
        date and the time the sample was taken, and the name of the person
        from whom the sample was taken or, if the name of the person is not
        known, sufficient information to enable the sample to be identified
        with the person from whom it was taken.

(2) If a blood sample is taken under section 55 or 55B of the Act, the
registered medical practitioner or approved health professional must give one
of the containers to a member of the police force and another to the person
from whom the sample was taken.

(3) If a blood sample is taken under section 56 of the Act and has, in
accordance with this regulation, been placed in containers which have been
sealed and labelled, the doctor must ensure that-

   (a)  one container is placed in a locked receptacle provided for the
        purpose at the place at which the sample was taken; and

(b) one container is placed and sealed in a container labelled "screening
sample"; and

   (c)  one container is delivered to the person from whom the blood sample
        was taken or placed with that person's personal property at the place
        at which the sample was taken.