If you are a seafarer and your breath test shows you may have been drinking, you have a right. You can choose to have a blood test to check how much alcohol is in your blood. You must make this choice within 10 minutes of an enforcement officer telling you about certain things, as stated in section 40R(3)(a).
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40J: Seafarer may be required to undergo further evidential breath test if initial test fails to produce result, or
"If a breath test for a seafarer doesn't work, they might need to take another one."
40L: Who must give blood specimen at places other than hospital or surgery, or
"Seafarers must give a blood sample if they can't or won't do a breath test"
If the result of a seafarer's evidential breath test appears to be positive, the seafarer has the right, within 10 minutes of being advised by an enforcement officer of the matters specified in section 40R(3)(a), to elect to have a blood test to assess the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood.
