209Taking of blood specimens for statistical or research purposes

1. Despite anything in any Act or rule of law, a health practitioner or medical officer employed by an approved health authority—

2. may, with the general or special approval of that health authority, take for statistical or research purposes, whether in the hospital at which the practitioner or officer is employed or otherwise, a blood specimen from a person who the practitioner or officer believes is in the hospital at which the practitioner or officer is employed for examination, care, or treatment as a result of an accident involving a motor vehicle:
3. may, with the consent of a person from whom such a blood specimen may be taken under this subsection, take for such purposes a specimen of breath, oral fluid, urine, perspiration, or eye vapour from that person.

4. A blood, breath, oral fluid, urine, perspiration, or eye vapour specimen taken under this section must be labelled that it was taken for statistical or research purposes, and evidence as to the proportion of alcohol or of a drug found in that specimen is not admissible in any civil or criminal proceedings in any court or in proceedings before a person acting judicially.

5. Repealed

6. Repealed

7. Repealed

8. Subsections (5) and (6) of section 73 apply to every blood, breath, oral fluid, urine, perspiration, or eye vapour specimen taken under this section as if the specimen had been taken under that section.

9. For the purposes of this section, a person acting judicially means any person having in New Zealand by law authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence.