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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 23XWC

Non - intimate forensic procedures authorised to be carried out on offenders

  (1)   A person is authorised to carry out a non - intimate forensic procedure to which this Division applies on a person (other than a child or an incapable person) who is a serious offender:

  (a)   with the informed consent of the serious offender; or

  (b)   by order of a constable under section   23XWK; or

  (c)   by order of a judge or magistrate under section   23XWO.

  (2)   A person is authorised to take the fingerprints of a prescribed offender (other than a child or an incapable person):

  (a)   with the informed consent of the prescribed offender; or

  (b)   by order of a constable under section   23XWK.

  (3)   A person is authorised to carry out a non - intimate forensic procedure to which this Division applies on a child or an incapable person who is a serious offender, or to take the fingerprints of a child or incapable person who is a prescribed offender, by order of a judge or magistrate under section   23XWO.



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