70A Right to elect blood test
  • (1) If the result of a person's evidential breath test appears to be positive, the person has the right, within 10 minutes of being advised by an enforcement officer of the matters specified in section 77(3)(a) (which sets out the conditions of the admissibility of the test), to elect to have a blood test to assess the proportion of alcohol in his or her blood.

    (2) This section is for the avoidance of doubt.

    Section 70A: inserted, on 29 December 2001, by section 6 of the Land Transport (Road Safety Enforcement) Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 104).