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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: work-test obligations

150: Use of drug test result

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“How MSD can use your drug test result”

You can use the result of a drug test in certain ways. The test is done under section 147 and shared with MSD under section 149. MSD can use this result, but they have to follow rules set out in section 431. These rules tell MSD how they can use the test result.

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Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: work-test obligations

150Use of drug test result

  1. MSD may, in accordance with regulations made under section 431, use the result of a drug test undertaken under section 147 and disclosed to MSD under section 149.

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