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reg 35

Adverse testing outcome: drugs

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35 Adverse testing outcome: drugs

(1)

A selected prison officer returns a positive result to a drug test if —

(a)

the preliminary analysis of the prison officer’s or contract prison officer’s sample returns a presumptive positive test result for drugs and that prison officer or contract prison officer subsequently returns a confirmed adverse test result for drugs; or

(b)

in the case of a test for testosterone, the preliminary analysis of the prison officer’s or contract prison officer’s sample returns a presumptive positive test result for drugs and that prison officer or contract prison officer subsequently returns a confirmed adverse test result for drugs indicating that the amount of testosterone present in the prison officer’s or contract prison officer’s sample is 4 or more times the amount of epitestosterone present in that sample.

(2)

A selected prison officer is taken to return a presumptive positive test result for drugs if the selected prison officer gives 2 or more invalid samples without a written medical explanation for the invalidity of the samples.

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