Clause 10

Section 31 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (4), the following subsections:“(5) Notwithstanding subsection (4), where upon conducting any preliminary urine test under subsection (4)(a), a part of a urine specimen has tested negative for controlled drugs, any of the officers referred to in subsection (1) may either discard the remaining 2 parts of the same urine specimen or proceed in accordance with subsection (4)(b).(6) A certificate stating the result of a urine test shall be signed by an analyst employed by the Health Sciences Authority or any other person that the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, appoints for such purpose.(7) The certificate stating the result of a urine test may be signed by an analyst or person appointed under subsection (6) notwithstanding that he did not personally conduct the test to analyse the urine specimen as long as the test was conducted by another person acting under his direction.(8) In this section, a specimen of urine may be collected from a person on different occasions within the time referred to in subsection (2).”.