Breath analysis following arrest(cf STM Act, s 15(1)–(3))
5 Breath analysis following arrest(cf STM Act, s 15(1)–(3))
A police officer may require a person who has been arrested under clause 4 to submit to a breath analysis in accordance with the directions of the officer.
A breath analysis must be carried out by a police officer authorised to do so by the Commissioner of Police at or near a police station or such other place as that officer considers desirable.
As soon as practicable after a person has submitted to a breath analysis, the police officer operating the breath analysing instrument must deliver a written statement to that person signed by that officer specifying the following—
the concentration of alcohol determined by the analysis to be present in that person’s breath or blood and expressed in grams of alcohol in 210 litres of breath or 100 millilitres of blood,
the day on and time of the day at which the breath analysis was completed.
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