Western Australian Current Regulations

YOUNG OFFENDERS REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 9

9 .         Taking of body samples

        (1)         If a youth community based order or an intensive youth supervision order is made on the condition or undertaking that the offender submit to the taking of a body sample, and the chief executive officer requires the offender to submit to the taking of a body sample — 

            (a)         if the body sample to be taken is breath, the breath test is to be conducted by means of an apparatus of an approved kind; or

            (b)         if the body sample to be taken is blood or urine, the blood or urine taken is to be labelled with — 

                  (i)         the name of the offender;

                  (ii)         the type of the sample;

                  (iii)         the name of the person who took the sample; and

                  (iv)         the date and time that the sample was taken.

        (2)         A body sample that is to be taken in the form of blood is to be taken by a medical practitioner.

        (3)         The chief executive officer is to direct, either generally or in respect of the particular case, whether a body sample is to be taken in the form of blood, breath or urine.

        (4)         In subregulation (1)(a), approved means approved by the chief executive officer.