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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 23XI

General rules for carrying out forensic procedures

    A forensic procedure:

  (a)   must be carried out in circumstances affording reasonable privacy to the suspect; and

  (b)   except as permitted (expressly or impliedly) by other provisions of this Part, must not be carried out in the presence or view of a person who is of the opposite sex to the suspect; and

  (c)   must not be carried out in the presence or view of a person whose presence is not necessary for the purposes of the forensic procedure or required or permitted by another provision of this Part; and

  (d)   must not involve the removal of more clothing than is necessary for the carrying out of the procedure; and

  (e)   must not involve more visual inspection than is necessary for the carrying out of the procedure.


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