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Version date: 31 July 2023 - onwards
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12. Obligation to provide breath, blood or urine specimens following arrest under Part 2.

(1) Where a person is arrested under section 4(8), 5(10), 6(4), 9(4), 10(7) or 11(6) of this Act or section 52(3), 53(5), 106(3A) or 112(6) of the Principal Act, a member of the Garda Síochána may, at a Garda Síochána station or hospital, do either or both of the following-

(a) require the person to provide, by exhaling into an apparatus for determining the concentration of alcohol in the breath, 2 specimens of his or her breath and may indicate the manner in which he or she is to comply with the requirement,

(b) require the person either-

(i) to permit a designated doctor or designated nurse to take from the person a specimen of his or her blood, or

(ii) at the option of the person, to provide for the designated doctor or designated nurse a specimen of his or her urine,