Identifying information of serious offenders
68A Identifying information of serious offenders
In this section —
former Schedule 1 clause 6 means Schedule 1 clause 6 as in effect under the former section 95;
former section 95 means section 95 as in effect before it was repealed by the Criminal Investigation (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 section 40.
Identifying information of a serious offender obtained under Part 8A —
may be compared with other information, whether or not in a forensic database, as soon as it is obtained; and
may be put in a forensic database as soon as it is obtained; and
may be used to obtain any identifying particular of the offender; and
must be destroyed if the serious offender ceases to be a serious offender and destruction is requested under section 69 by or on behalf of the offender.
Subsection (2) applies in relation to identifying information of a serious offender obtained under the former Schedule 1 clause 6 as if the references in subsection (2)(a) and (b) to “as soon as it is obtained” were deleted.
[Section 68A inserted: No. 22 of 2013 s. 27.]
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