Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts In this Part —
forensic database means a DNA database or another
database (whether or not on a computer and however described) that contains
—
(a)
information in relation to the commission of an offence that may identify the
person who committed it; or
(b)
identifying information of people lawfully obtained before the commencement of
this Act; or
(c)
identifying information of people (alive or deceased) obtained under this Act;
or
(d)
identifying information of missing persons and their relatives by blood;
identifying information , in relation to a person,
means —
(a) any
identifying particular obtained as a result of doing an identifying procedure
on the person; or
(b)
anything used in obtaining the identifying particular such as an impression,
negative, sample or swab; or
(c) the
personal details of the person obtained when the identifying particular was
obtained,
and, for the purposes of this definition, it does
not matter in what form the information is kept;
Example for this definition:
On paper or in an
electronic or digitised form.
identifying particular has the same meaning as it
has in section 11(1).