This notice is the Land Transport (Blood Specimen Collecting Procedure) Notice 2011.

This notice comes into force on 5 November 2011.

In this notice, Act means the Land Transport Act 1998.

For the purposes of sections 72 to 74 of the Act, the relevant blood specimen collecting procedure is the procedure for the collecting of a blood specimen specified in clauses 5 to 8.

A blood specimen must be collected using a needle and syringe.

(1) When taking a blood specimen, the medical practitioner or medical officer must divide the blood specimen into 2 parts, being—

• (a) 1 part for analysis by an approved laboratory; and

• (b) 1 part for custody by an approved laboratory and, if required to do so under section 74(5)(b)(ii) of the Act, subsequent sending or delivery to a private analyst.

(2) For the purposes of section 74(3), (4), (5)(b)(i), and (7)(a)(i) of the Act, the blood specimen means both parts of the blood specimen.

(3) For the purposes of section 74(5)(b)(ii) of the Act, the blood specimen means the 1 part of the blood specimen held in custody by the approved laboratory and referred to in subclause (1)(b).

(1) The medical practitioner or medical officer must put the blood specimen parts into separate blood specimen containers taken from a sealed blood specimen collecting kit.

(2) The blood specimen containers must then be sealed.

A medical practitioner or medical officer who takes a blood specimen under section 72 of the Act must, after the blood specimen containers are sealed, hand both containers to an enforcement officer.