Public Health (Tobacco) Act, 2002
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Laboratories. |
51.—(1) The Minister may, for the purposes of this Act designate, by notice in writing published in Iris Oifigiúil— | |
(a) a laboratory as a laboratory at which samples taken under this Act may be analysed (in this Act referred to as a “designated laboratory”), and | ||
(b) a person as being a person who, or a class of persons the members of which, may, at a designated laboratory, analyse samples taken under this Act, and each such person or member is in this Act referred to as a “designated analyst”. | ||
(2) As soon as practicable after a sample taken by an authorised officer under this Act has been received at a designated laboratory it shall be analysed and the composition, the amount and concentration of its ingredients and any other properties of the sample shall be determined by a designated analyst at that laboratory. | ||
(3) As soon as practicable after compliance with subsection (2) a designated analyst engaged in the analysis of samples at the designated laboratory concerned shall forward the results of the analysis carried out on the sample concerned— | ||
(a) in the case of a sample forwarded or caused to be forwarded under section 50 by an authorised officer appointed by the Office, to the Office, or | ||
(b) in the case of a sample forwarded or caused to be forwarded under that section by an authorised officer appointed by the health board, to the health board concerned. |