Title: Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Bill 2018
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
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House of Assembly—No 5
As laid on the table and read a first time, 16 May 2018

Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Bill 2018
Contents

Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Bill 2018

Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Bill 2018
Part 1—Preliminary

Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Bill 2018
Preliminary—Part 1

Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Bill 2018
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961

Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Bill 2018
Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961—Part 2

South Australia
Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Bill 2018
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961
3	Amendment of Schedule 1—Oral fluid and blood sample processes

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Drug Testing) Amendment Act 2018.
2—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic Act 1961
3—Amendment of Schedule 1—Oral fluid and blood sample processes
	(1)	Schedule 1, clause 8(1)—delete "subclause (2)(a)(ii)" and substitute:
subclause (2)(b)
	(2)	Schedule 1, clause 8(2)—delete subclause (2) and substitute:
	(2)	The results of a drug screening test, oral fluid analysis or blood test under Part 3 Division 5, an admission or statement made by a person relating to such a drug screening test, oral fluid analysis or blood test, or any evidence taken in proceedings relating to such a drug screening test, oral fluid analysis or blood test (or transcript of such evidence) will not be admissible in evidence against the person who submitted to the drug screening test, oral fluid analysis or blood test in any proceedings other than—
	(a)	proceedings for—
	(i)	an offence against this Act; or
	(ii)	an offence against the Motor Vehicles Act 1959; or
	(iii)	a driving-related offence; or
	(iv)	an offence against the Controlled Substances Act 1984; or
	(b)	if the test or analysis occurred in connection with the person's involvement in an accident—civil proceedings in connection with death or bodily injury caused by or arising out of the use of a motor vehicle involved in the accident (including proceedings under section 116 or 124A of the Motor Vehicles Act 1959 for the recovery from the person of money paid or costs incurred by the nominal defendant or an insurer).

HA GP 149-B: Mr Lee Odenwalder MP