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Transport Amendment Act 1969

Public Act		1969 No 8
Date of assent		24 July 1969

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Blood tests
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Transport Act 1962

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Transport Amendment Act 1969, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Transport Act 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Blood tests

(1)

Section 59c of the principal Act (as inserted by section 13 of the Transport Amendment Act 1968) is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (2), the following subsection:

“(2a)

For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that any preservative or anti-coagulant substance may be added to any specimen of blood taken under this section, and that the addition of any such substance to any such specimen shall be deemed always to have been permitted:

“Provided that nothing in this subsection shall affect the rights of the parties under any judgment given in any Court before the commencement of this subsection, or under any judgment given on appeal from any such judgment, whether the appeal is commenced before or after the commencement of this subsection.”

(2)

Section 59c of the principal Act (as so inserted) is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (6), after the words “and identified by the certificate”, the words “and certifying that no such deterioration or congealing had been found in the specimen of blood as would prevent a proper analysis”.

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Transport.

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