New Zealand Legislation: Bills
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The following section is inserted after section 209:
“209A Analysing blood specimens for statistical or research purposes related to use of drugs or alcohol
“(1) Without limiting the purposes for which a blood specimen may be analysed or re-analysed under this Act, a person may, for statistical or research purposes related to the use of drugs or alcohol, analyse or re-analyse in an approved laboratory a blood specimen from a person taken under section 72 or 73.
“(2) Subsection (1) applies to any blood specimen taken under this Act before, during, or after it comes into force.
“(3) No analysis of a blood specimen under subsection (1) may be used as evidence in any proceedings for an offence.
“(4) A blood specimen analysed or re-analysed under subsection (1) must be treated in a manner that does not identify the person from whom the blood specimen is taken.”
