Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(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.