Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (IDENTIFYING PEOPLE) ACT 2002 - SECT 43

43 .         Approval to do non-intimate identifying procedure on adult, application for

        (1)         In this section —

        suspect means a suspect who is an adult.

        (2)         An application for an approval under this section to do a non-intimate identifying procedure on a suspect must be made to another officer who is a senior officer and not involved in the investigation of the offence to which the proposed non-intimate identifying procedure relates.

        (3)         The application may be made by remote communication.

        (4)         The application must —

            (a)         if practicable be in writing;

            (b)         name the suspect to whom it relates;

            (c)         state the offence that the suspect is suspected of having committed;

            (d)         specify the identifying particular that is sought and the non-intimate identifying procedure by means of which it is to be obtained;

            (e)         state the grounds on which the applicant suspects —

                  (i)         that the suspect has committed the offence; and

                  (ii)         that the identifying particular sought will afford evidence of whether or not the suspect committed the offence.