41—Commissioner may maintain DNA database system
(1) The Commissioner
of Police may maintain a DNA database system.
(2) The Minister
may—
(a)
enter into an arrangement with the Minister responsible for the administration
of a corresponding law, providing for the exchange of information recorded in
the DNA database system kept under this section and a database kept under the
corresponding law; and
(b)
enter into an arrangement with the Minister responsible for the administration
of a corresponding law of the Commonwealth or with CrimTrac, providing for the
transmission of information recorded in the DNA database system kept under
this section to CrimTrac for the purpose of that authority doing any, or all,
of the following:
(i)
causing the information so transmitted to form part of
NCIDD;
(ii)
comparing the information so transmitted with other
information on NCIDD;
(iii)
identifying any matches between the information so
transmitted and other information on NCIDD;
(iv)
transmitting information arising from such matches to the
Commissioner of Police.
(3) In this
section—
"CrimTrac" means the CrimTrac Agency, established as an Executive Agency by
the Governor-General by order under section 65 of the
Public Service Act 1999 of the Commonwealth;
"NCIDD" means the database that is known as the National Criminal
Investigation DNA Database and that is managed by the Commonwealth.