Failure to stay for drug screening test
36 Failure to stay for drug screening test
This section applies if the worker—
is required by an authorised person to submit to a drug screening test under the Rail Safety National Law (ACT), section 127 (Authorised person may require drug screening test, oral fluid analysis, urine test and blood test); and
fails to stay at the place where the test is being carried out for the time (not exceeding 30 minutes from the time the worker starts the test) reasonably necessary for the test to be completed in accordance with the authorised person’s directions.
Fail includes refuse (see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1).
The rail safety worker is taken to have committed an offence against the Rail Safety National Law (ACT), section 127 (3).
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