Blood testing for communicable diseases—Notification of results to accused (section 20B of Act)
6 Blood testing for communicable diseases—Notification of results to accused (section 20B of Act)
If a forensic procedure is carried out on a person pursuant to section 20B of the Act, the Commissioner of Police must take reasonable steps to notify the following persons of the results of testing for communicable diseases undertaken on the material obtained from the forensic procedure:
the person on whom the forensic procedure was carried out;
if the person is under the age of 16 years at the time the forensic procedure is carried out—the person's parent or guardian.
The
Commissioner of Police is taken to have complied with the requirement of subregulation (1) to notify a person or the person's parent or guardian of the results of testing on provision of the results to a medical practitioner nominated by the person or the person's parent or guardian.
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