SCHEDULE 12 Discipline etc at F1Removal Centres
Testing for drugs or alcohol
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(1)
If an authorisation is in force, a detainee custody officer may, at the centre to which the authorisation applies and in accordance with F1removal centre rules, require a detained person who is confined in the centre to provide a sample for the purpose of ascertaining—
(a)
whether he has a drug in his body; or
(b)
whether he has alcohol in his body.
(2)
The sample required may be one or more of the following—
(a)
a sample of urine;
(b)
a sample of breath;
(c)
a sample of a specified description.
(3)
Sub-paragraph (2)(c)—
(a)
applies only if the authorisation so provides; and
(b)
does not authorise the taking of an intimate sample.
(4)
“Authorisation” means an authorisation given by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this paragraph in respect of a particular F1removal centre.
(5)
“Drug” means a drug which is a controlled drug for the purposes of the M1Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
(6)
“Specified” means specified in the authorisation.
(7)
“Intimate sample”—
(a)
in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in Part V of the M2Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;
(b)
in relation to Scotland, means—
(i)
a sample of blood, semen or any other tissue fluid, urine or pubic hair;
(ii)
a dental impression;
(iii)
a swab taken from a person’s body orifice other than the mouth; and
(c)
in relation to Northern Ireland, has the same meaning as in Part VI of the M3Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.