Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, 1978

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Procedure at Bureau regarding specimens.

22.—(1) As soon as practicable after it has received a specimen forward to it under section 21, the Bureau shall analyse the specimen and determine the concentration of alcohol or (as may be appropriate) the presence of a drug or drugs in the specimen.

(2) Where the Bureau receives two specimens of blood so forwarded together in relation to the same person or two specimens of urine so forwarded together in relation to the same person, it shall be sufficient compliance with subsection (1) for the Bureau to make an analysis and determination of one of the two specimens of blood or (as may be appropriate) of one of the two specimens of urine.

(3) As soon as practicable after compliance with subsection (1), the Bureau shall forward to the Garda station from which the specimen analysed was forwarded a completed certificate in the form prescribed for the purpose of this section and shall forward a copy of the completed certificate to the person who is named on the relevant form under section 21 as the person from whom the specimen was taken or who provided it.