Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (IDENTIFYING PEOPLE) ACT 2002 - SECT 52E

52E .         When identifying procedure may be done

        (1)         If —

            (a)         under section 52C a request is made to a serious offender; and

            (b)         the offender is informed under that section; and

            (c)         the offender consents to the identifying procedure being done,

                then the non-intimate identifying procedure may be done on the offender.

        (2)         If —

            (a)         subsection (1)(a) and (b) apply but the serious offender does not consent or withdraws consent to the identifying procedure; or

            (b)         it is not practicable to make a request to a serious offender under section 52C,

                an officer may —

            (c)         if the offender is not in custody — without a warrant arrest the offender and detain him or her for a reasonable period in order to do the non-intimate identifying procedure; and

            (d)         do the non-intimate identifying procedure on the offender against the offender’s will.

        [Section 52E inserted: No. 22 of 2013 s. 22.]