Crimes Legislation Amendment (Powers and Offences) Act 2012 (24 of 2012)
Schedule 1 Forensic procedures
Part 1 Amendments commencing on day after Royal Assent
Crimes Act 1914
41 After section 23XWN
Insert:
23XWNA Circumstances in which judge or magistrate may order forensic procedure
A judge or magistrate may, under section 23XWO, order the carrying out of a forensic procedure on an offender if:
(a) the offender is not in custody and has not consented to the forensic procedure (whether or not consent has been sought); or
(b) the offender is in custody and has not consented to the forensic procedure (whether or not consent has been sought); or
(c) under section 23WE, the offender cannot consent to the forensic procedure.
Copyright notice
© Australian Taxation Office for the Commonwealth of Australia
You are free to copy, adapt, modify, transmit and distribute material on this website as you wish (but not in any way that suggests the ATO or the Commonwealth endorses you or any of your services or products).
