Who can ask for an MTO?

People who work in some government services can ask for an MTO.

This includes people who work:

• for the police
• in a prison.

It includes people who work for emergency

services, such as:

• paramedics
• firefighters.

And it includes people who work for NSW Health services, like health care workers in hospitals.

We call all of these people ‘workers’.

A worker can ask for you to have a blood test if your bodily fluids touched them.

They can only ask for an MTO if you are 14 years or older.

And your bodily fluids must have touched the worker:

• when they were at work

• because of something you did on purpose

• when they didn’t give their consent.

If someone gives consent, they say it is ok to do something.