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Social Security Act 2018

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

151: Costs of drug test

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“MSD can pay for job-related drug tests, but there are rules”

You may have to take a drug test when applying for a job. The organisation called MSD can pay back the employer for the cost of this test. They do this according to certain rules.

If you are asked to take a second drug test to confirm the results of the first one, but you decide not to take it, MSD won’t pay for the first test. This only applies in certain situations described in another part of the law.

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Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: work-test obligations

151Costs of drug test

  1. MSD may, in accordance with regulations made under section 431(1)(c), reimburse a potential employer for the costs of a drug test undertaken by a person under section 147 requested by that employer.

  2. Subsection (1) does not apply to the costs of an evidential drug test if the person waives the right to the evidential drug test in the situation specified in section 149(1).

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