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CRIMINAL LAW (FORENSIC PROCEDURES) ACT 2007 (NO 5 OF 2007) - SECT 41

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.



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