If you are a seafarer and your breath test shows you may have been drinking, you have the right to ask for a blood test. You must ask for the blood test within 10 minutes of being told about the results by an enforcement officer, as stated in section 40R(3)(a). This blood test will check how much alcohol is in your blood.

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Part 4ARegulation of alcohol consumption by seafarers

40KRight to elect blood 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.

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Notes

Section 40K: inserted, on 23 October 2013, by section 12 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).