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MOTOR TRAFFIC (ALCOHOL AND DRUGS) (AMENDMENT) ACT 1990 (NO. 64 OF 1990) - SECT 6

Detention for the purpose of breath analysis

6. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(2) Where—

        (a)     pursuant to paragraph (1) (a) the approved screening device used in the screening test indicates to the police officer that the concentration of alcohol in the blood of the person is equal to or more than .02 grams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood; and

        (b)     the police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person is a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of ‘prescribed concentration' in section 4;

subsection (1) applies in relation to that person accordingly.”.



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