Section 264 — Social Security Act 2018: Drug testing for purposes of recompliance

264 Drug testing for purposes of recompliance (1) A person ( P ) who has given an undertaking under section 263(3) must comply with both subsections (2) and (3). (2) Within 25 working days after the start date, P must attend at the location of a drug-testing provider for the purpose of undertaking a drug test that is— (a) a screening drug test and, if P fails that test, an evidential drug test; or (b) an evidential drug test without any associated prior screening drug test. (3) Within 30 working days after the start date, P must provide evidence to the satisfaction of MSD that P has passed a screening drug test or evidential drug test, as the case may be. (4) In this section, start date means the date of P’s undertaking. (5) A person who fails a screening drug test or an evidential drug test, or both, that is performed within the testing period may (in order to try to comply with the person’s undertaking despite that failure) undertake, at the person’s own expense, further drug testing within the testing period. Compare: 1964 No 136 s 122A(1), (2), (4)