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Identifying information of reportable offenders

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Part 9Use and destruction of identifying information

68B Identifying information of reportable offenders

(1)

In this section —

reportable offender has the meaning given in the Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004 section 6.

(2)

Identifying information of a person who is or was a reportable offender obtained under Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004 section 40A or 41(2)(c) —

(a)

may be compared with other information, whether or not in a forensic database, as soon as it is obtained; and

(b)

may be put in a forensic database as soon as it is obtained; and

(c)

may be used to obtain any identifying particular of the offender; and

(d)

must be destroyed if the person —

(i)

is not a serious offender as defined in section 52A; and

(ii)

ceases to be a reportable offender under the Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004 section 6(6)(a), (b) or (c)(i); and

(iii)

requested the destruction, or destruction is requested on behalf of the person, under section 69.

[Section 68B inserted: No. 35 of 2024 s. 62; amended: No. 35 of 2024 s. 95.]

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