Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 464NB

    (1)     Fingerprints taken in accordance with this Subdivision and any record, copy or photograph of them may be used by a person authorised in writing by the Chief Commissioner of Police for any of the following purposes—

        (a)     to identify a deceased person;

        (b)     to identify a person who has suffered a serious injury;

        (c)     to identify a deceased person in a coronial inquest or investigation.

    (2)     The Chief Commissioner of Police may disclose the identity of a person who is identified through the use of fingerprints under subsection (1) to a coroner.

    (3)     The Chief Commissioner of Police may disclose the identity of a person who is identified through the use of fingerprints for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) to a medical practitioner.

S. 464O inserted by No. 38/1988 s. 4,
amended by Nos 25/1989 s. 11(e), 56/1989 s. 286(Sch. 2 items 7.11–7.13), 57/1989 s. 5(1)(f)(i)–(iii), substituted by No. 129/1993 s. 7.