Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (IDENTIFYING PEOPLE) ACT 2002 - SECT 74

74 .         Use of illegal identifying information

        (1)         In this section —

        illegal identifying information means identifying information —

            (a)         that has been obtained in contravention of this Act or a corresponding law of a participating jurisdiction; or

            (b)         that is required by this Act or a corresponding law of a participating jurisdiction to have been destroyed but has not been destroyed.

        (2)         For the purposes of this section a person uses illegal identifying information if the person —

            (a)         supplies the information to another person —

                  (i)         to be analysed; or

                  (ii)         to be put in a forensic database; or

                  (iii)         to be compared with other information, whether or not in a forensic database;

                or

            (b)         analyses the information; or

            (c)         compares the information with other information, whether or not in a forensic database; or

            (d)         puts the information in a forensic database; or

            (e)         leaves the information in a forensic database.

        (3)         A person who knows or reasonably ought to know that identifying information is illegal identifying information must not use the information.

        Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.