New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (FORENSIC PROCEDURES) ACT 2000 - SECT 97

97 Database information

(1) The Minister may enter into arrangements for any of the purposes set out in subsection (1A) with the responsible authority of one or more participating jurisdictions under which--

(a) information from the DNA database of this State may be transmitted to any jurisdiction that is a party to the arrangements, and

(b) information from any such jurisdiction may be transmitted to this State.

(1A) Information that is transmitted under this section must not be used except for the following purposes--

(a) the investigation of, or the conduct of proceedings for, an offence against the law of this State or the law of a jurisdiction that is a party to the arrangements,

(b) the identification of missing or deceased persons,

(c) if arrangements are entered into with the Australian Crime Commission--the Australian Crime Commission comparing the transmitted information with information transmitted from a participating jurisdiction and then notifying this State and that jurisdiction of any matches that it finds.

(1B) Arrangements under this section may not authorise the comparison of information so as to match DNA profiles in a manner that would contravene section 93 were the information contained wholly within the DNA database of this State.

(2) Information that is transmitted under this section must not be recorded or maintained in any database of information that may be used to discover the identity of a person or to obtain information about an identifiable person at any time after this Act or a corresponding law of a participating jurisdiction requires the forensic material to which it relates to be destroyed.