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SEX OFFENDERS REGISTRATION ACT 2004 - SECT 66T

Registrable offender to submit to testing for drugs and alcohol

    (1)     If a prohibition order includes a drug testing condition or an alcohol testing condition, a police officer may direct the registrable offender, in accordance with this section, to submit to breath testing, urinalysis or other approved test procedures.

    (2)     The police officer must not give a direction under subsection (1) unless the police officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that the registrable offender has contravened a condition of the prohibition order by consuming alcohol or using or unlawfully obtaining drugs of dependence (as the case requires).

    (3)     Before giving the registrable offender a direction under subsection (1), the police officer must—

        (a)     specify the grounds on which the police officer reasonably suspects that the registrable offender has contravened a condition of the prohibition order; and

        (b)     state that the registrable offender may contravene the prohibition order by refusing to comply with the direction.

    (4)     A registrable offender who is directed to submit to drug testing or alcohol testing may request that the police officer state, orally or in writing, the officer's name, rank and place of duty.

    (5)     A police officer must not, in response to a request under subsection (4)—

        (a)     refuse or fail to comply with the request; or

        (b)     state a name or rank that is false in a material particular; or

        (c)     state as the police officer's place of duty an address other than the name of the police station which is the police officer's ordinary place of duty.

Division 6—Monitoring conditions and powers of entry, search and seizure under monitoring conditions

S. 66U inserted by No. 21/2016 s. 8.



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