Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE SERVICE ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 5A.21

5A.21 Evidentiary provision

(1) A certificate apparently signed by an analyst and stating the following is evidence of what it states—

(a) a specimen of urine or saliva provided by a stated person on a stated day and at a stated place was received from a stated authorised person at the analyst’s laboratory on a stated day and time;

(b) the analyst made a laboratory test of the specimen on a stated day and at the stated place;

(c) a stated targeted substance or a metabolite of a stated targeted substance was indicated by the laboratory test to be present in the person’s urine or saliva.

(2) A certificate apparently signed by a government medical officer and stating that the presence of a stated targeted substance in a person impairs or may impair the person’s capacity to perform the person’s duties without danger to the person or others is evidence of what it states.

(3) A certificate apparently signed by the commissioner and stating either of the following is evidence of what it states—

(a) at a stated time a stated officer performed duties in an operational capacity in a critical area;

(b) at a stated time a stated staff member performed duties involving a critical area.