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AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 40M

Prescribed persons may require AFP appointees to undergo alcohol screening tests, alcohol breath tests or prohibited drug tests etc.

  (1)   A person authorised to do so under the regulations may give an AFP appointee who is on duty a written direction requiring him or her to do one or more of the following:

  (aa)   undergo an alcohol screening test;

  (a)   undergo a breath test;

  (b)   provide a body sample of a kind specified in the direction for a prohibited drug test;

in accordance with the regulations.

Providing blood sample if breath test indicates the presence of alcohol

  (2)   If:

  (a)   an AFP appointee, in accordance with a direction under subsection   (1), undergoes a breath test; and

  (b)   the breath test indicates the presence of alcohol;

he or she may provide a sample of his or her blood for the purpose of a blood test, in accordance with the regulations.

Compliance with direction

  (3)   An AFP appointee must comply with a direction given to him or her under this section.



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