Chapter XIII — Offences, Penalties And Procedure
Section 204 — Laboratory test
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988)
Text of the section
Laboratory test.—(1) A person, who has been arrested under section 203 may, while at a police station, be required by a police officer to provide to such registered medical practitioner as may be produced by such police officer, a specimen of his blood for a Laboratory test,— (a) it appears to the police officer that the device, by means of which breath test was taken in relation to such person, indicates the presence of alcohol in the blood of such person, or
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