s 61

Terms used

In force

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).

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