(16C)Certificate by health care professional of failure to provide blood specimen#

If a person who is required under subsection (8), (8C) or (9) to provide a specimen of the person’s blood for a laboratory test fails to do so as prescribed by the subsection under which the requisition is made, the health care professional by whom the specimen is to be taken must, as soon as practicable thereafter, sign 2 copies of a certificate in writing stating—

1. (a)the full name of the person concerned; and
2. (b)the name of the police officer who made the requisition; and
3. (c)that the person concerned failed to provide a specimen of blood when required;

and must deliver— 1 copy of such certificate to the police officer who made the requisition; and the other copy to the person who failed to provide the specimen of blood when required (or to another person on behalf of that person on request by that other person).