Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES (FORENSIC PROCEDURES) ACT 2000 - SECT 8

A suspect is any of the following:

        (a)     a person suspected by a police officer, on reasonable grounds, to have committed an offence;

        (b)     a person charged with an offence;

        (c)     a person who has been summonsed to appear before a court for an offence;

        (d)     a person who has entered into a voluntary agreement to attend court (VATAC) for an offence.

Note     Section 107 states that the burden lies on the prosecution to prove on the balance of probabilities that a police officer had a belief on reasonable grounds.