Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (IDENTIFYING PEOPLE) ACT 2002 - SECT 91

91 .         Arrangements for sharing information

        (1)         The Minister may, with a Minister of a participating jurisdiction who is responsible for the administration of a corresponding law, enter into arrangements under which —

            (a)         information from the DNA database of this State is transmitted to the authorised officer of that jurisdiction; or

            (b)         information from the DNA database of that jurisdiction is transmitted to the Commissioner of Police; or

            (c)         for the purposes of law enforcement in that jurisdiction, law enforcement officers of that jurisdiction are entitled to have access to identifying and other information, whether or not in a forensic database, held by the WA Police; or

            (d)         for the purposes of law enforcement in this State, law enforcement officers in this State are permitted to have access to identifying and other information, whether or not in a forensic database, held by law enforcement officers in that jurisdiction.

        (2)         Information that is transmitted under an arrangement made under this section must not be recorded or maintained in any database of information that may be used to discover the identity of a person, or to obtain information about an identifiable person, at any time after this Act or a corresponding law requires the information or the forensic material to which it relates to be destroyed.