Criminal Code

Marginal note:No offence committed

• 257 (1) No qualified medical practitioner or qualified technician is guilty of an offence only by reason of his refusal to take a sample of blood from a person for the purposes of section 254 or 256 and no qualified medical practitioner is guilty of an offence only by reason of his refusal to cause to be taken by a qualified technician under his direction a sample of blood from a person for those purposes.

• Marginal note:No criminal or civil liability

  (2) No qualified medical practitioner, and no qualified technician, who takes a sample of blood from a person under section 254 or 256 incurs any criminal or civil liability for doing anything necessary to take the sample that was done with reasonable care and skill.