New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

STATUS OF CHILDREN REGULATION 1998 - REG 18

18 Testing of bodily samples

(1) A laboratory to which a bodily sample has been sent for testing must ensure that the testing is completed:

(a) if the proposed testing procedure is red cell antigen blood grouping, red cell enzyme blood grouping or testing for serum markers--within 6 days after the sample is taken, or

(b) if the proposed testing procedure is HLA tissue typing--within 3 days after the sample is taken, or

(c) if the proposed testing procedure is DNA typing--within a reasonable time after the sample is taken.

(2) If the proposed parentage testing procedure is red cell enzyme blood grouping or testing for serum markers, subclause (1) (a) is complied with if a dried sample of the bodily sample to be tested is prepared within 6 days after the sample is taken from the donor.