Sample Family Court Order for Hair Drug Abuse Screening

Screening for Drugs of Abuse

1. That the father/mother (specify) make an appointment and attend for hair collection at Brunswick Health Clinic for hair drug and/or alcohol testing (specify) purposes. The collection is to be conducted by a qualified collector. The chain-of-Custody procedure is to be applied to the sample. Testing is to be conducted at an approved laboratory, accredited to conduct hair drug testing to the recognised International Standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the relevant national accreditation body for that laboratory. Either head or body hair may be collected for testing. To give effect to this order:

(a)              (a) The father/mother (specify) is required to maintain his/her (specify) head hair at a length of not less than three (3) centimetres; neither head hair nor body hair is to be cut, bleached or dyed between the date of this order and the time of collection of hair;

(b)      Within seventy-two (72) hours of the date of these orders, the father/mother (specify) is required to make an appointment with Brunswick Health Clinic by telephoning 03 9380 5434 for the purpose of providing a hair sample for hair drug and/or alcohol testing (specify) purposes;

(c)   Each party or their legal representatives is at liberty to provide Brunswick Health Clinic with a copy of these orders;

(d)      The father/mother (specify) is to attend at Brunswick Health Clinic and submit to the supervised collection of a hair sample from the father/mother (specify) at the earliest available appointment time within seven (7) days of receiving written notice to undertake hair collection for hair drug testing purposes from the father/mother (specify) or his/her (specify) legal representatives;

(e)      Written notice to undertake hair collection for hair drug testing purposes may be sent to the father/mother (specify) care of the email address (specify) and shall be deemed to have been received by the father/mother (specify) at the date and time it is sent via email;

(f) ..The father/mother (specify) is to provide the collector with photographic identification to be recorded before each hair collection and authority, with this order also hereby authorising Brunswick Health Clinic to provide the results of each test to both parties, the father and the mother, the Children’s lawyer (if applicable), and/or (specify) their legal representatives upon receipt of such test results;

(g)   The hair drug and/or alcohol test may screen for alcohol EtG and/or drugs of abuse (specify) including amphetamine-type substances and metabolites, cannabis and metabolites, cocaine and metabolites, opioids and metabolites and any other drug specified in this order as required, (specify)

(h)      Brunswick Health Clinic is required to utilise the testing services of an appropriate laboratory accredited to conduct hair drug testing to the recognised International Standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the relevant National Accreditation body; Brunswick Health Clinic’s selection is to be based on the type of test

required, the specific drug or drugs to be tested, the laboratory’s compliance level with international Society of Hair Testing (SoHT) guidelines, cost, and time required for results to be made available;

(i)   The cost of the first hair alcohol and/or drug test (specify) is to be met by the father/mother

(specify); and

(j)   The costs of each subsequent hair alcohol and/or drug test (specify) is to be met by the father/mother (specify to be determined on each occasion):

1.     By the father/mother (specify) if any of the circumstances described in order 3(a), 3(b) or 3(c)were applicable with respect to the then most recent hair alcohol and/or drug test pursuant to these orders; or

1.     By the father/mother (specify) if none of the circumstances described in order 3(a), 3(b) or 3(c) were applicable with respect to the then most recent hair alcohol and/or drug test pursuant to these orders.

2. That in relation to the hair alcohol and/or drug test (specify) pursuant to order 1:

1.   The father/mother (specify) is only required to submit to hair alcohol and/or drug testing

(specify) not more frequently than once per three (3) calendar months

1.   If the father/mother (specify) does not produce a satisfactory hair alcohol and/or drug test results (specify), then the hair alcohol and/or drug testing (specify) of the father/mother(specify) is suspended until the father/mother (specify) produces a satisfactory hair alcohol and/or drug test result(specify);

1.   Upon the father/mother (specify) producing a satisfactory hair alcohol and/or drug test result(specify), the hair alcohol and/or drug testing (specify) pursuant to order 1 recommences.

3. In the event that:

1.   A hair alcohol and/or drug test result (specify) of the father/mother (specify) detects a substance referred to in order 1(g) other than a lawfully obtained current prescription or over-the-counter medication; or

1.   The father/mother (specify) fails to provide a hair sample in accordance with these orders within the timeframe provided for in these orders; or

1. ..The father’s/mother’s (specify) hair is not maintained as referred to in order 1(a); then the following apply:

d. ..(PLEASE SPECIFY OUTLINING ANY CONSEQUENCES)