Transitional provisions—Crimes Amendment (DNA Database) Act 2007
608 Transitional provisions—Crimes Amendment (DNA Database) Act 2007
S. 608 inserted by No. 32/2007 s. 12.
An amendment made to this Act by the Amendment Act applies only to offences alleged to have been committed on or after the commencement of that Act.
For the purposes of subsection (1), if an offence is alleged to have been committed between 2 dates, one before and one after the commencement of the Amendment Act, the offence is alleged to have been committed before the commencement of that Act.
On the commencement of the Amendment Act, a computerised database or DNA database kept under section 464ZFD before that commencement is taken to be the DNA database system kept under section 464ZFD(1AA) by the Chief Commissioner of Police.
A matching of a DNA profile made in accordance with the Table to section 464ZGI before the commencement of the Amendment Act continues on and after that commencement as if the matching had occurred in accordance with the Table as in force after that commencement.
An arrangement under section 464ZGN in force immediately before the commencement of the Amendment Act continues in force on the same terms and conditions and for the same period after that commencement as if it had been entered into under section 464ZGN as in force after that commencement.
In this section—
Amendment Act means the Crimes Amendment (DNA Database) Act 2007.
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