Protection for hospital patients

(1) While a person is at a hospital as a patient, he shall not be required to provide a specimen for a laboratory test unless the medical practitioner in immediate charge of his case has been notified of the proposal to make the requirement, and– (a) if the requirement is then made it shall be for the provision of a specimen at the hospital; but (b) if the medical practitioner objects on the ground specified in sub-section (2) the requirement shall not be made. (2) The ground on which the medical practitioner may object is that the requirement for the provision of a specimen or the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic [CAP. 230 55 warning required under section 77 (6), would be prejudicial to the proper care and treatment of the patient. or 75.