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CRIMES (FORENSIC PROCEDURES) ACT 2000 - SECT 81H

Presence of other people while forensic procedure is carried out on children under 10 years of age

81H Presence of other people while forensic procedure is carried out on children under 10 years of age

(1) A parent or guardian of a child, or an Australian legal practitioner representing a child, must, if reasonably practicable, be present while a forensic procedure is carried out on the child.
(2) Where the presence of a police officer is reasonably necessary to ensure that a forensic procedure is carried out effectively and in accordance with this Part, the police officer is (if reasonably practicable) to be a person of the sex chosen by the child or, if the child is unable or does not wish to make such a choice, a person of the same sex as the child.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the following forensic procedures--
(a) the taking of hand prints, finger prints, foot prints or toe prints,
(b) any non-intimate forensic procedure that may be carried out without requiring the child to remove any clothing other than his or her overcoat, coat, jacket, gloves, socks, shoes, scarf or hat.



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