Police are not required to have an approved alcometer in their possession when discharging the s 47E(4)(ab) prescribed oral advice obligations; the s 47EA(1)(c) possession requirement applies only to the original direction to submit to an alcotest. The prescribed oral advice obligation under s 47E(4)(ab) applies to refusals to comply with all directions under s 47E(3), not only to refusals relating to the direction to exhale, contrary to the reasoning of [name withheld] in [name withheld] v Police. The obligation does not apply where a driver takes positive action producing irreversible consequences frustrating compliance.
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