Marine Safety Act 1998

This clause applies in relation to the taking of a urine sample under this Schedule by an authorised sample taker (a urine sample taker).

A urine sample taker must—

place the sample into a container, and

fasten and seal the container, and

mark or label the container for future identification, and

give to the person from whom the sample is taken a certificate relating to the sample that contains sufficient information to enable the sample to be identified as a sample of that person’s urine, and

make appropriate arrangements for the urine sample to be submitted to a prescribed laboratory for analysis by an analyst.

The urine sample must be placed in a security box (whether by the urine sample taker, an authorised officer or a person acting under the direction of the sample taker or officer) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the procedures in subclause (2) have been completed.

The urine sample must be kept in the security box until it is submitted to a prescribed laboratory for analysis.

Subject to subclause (6), the urine sample taker must make arrangements for the urine sample to be submitted to a prescribed laboratory for analysis by an analyst to determine whether the urine contains a drug if that is a purpose for which the sample may be used.

An authorised officer may make the arrangements referred to in subclause (5) instead of the urine sample taker. The making of such arrangements under this subclause operates to discharge the duty of the urine sample taker under subclause (5) to make those arrangements.