New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1996 - SECT 33

33 Offence: Taking of bodily sample by unqualified persons

(1) A person must not take any bodily sample purportedly for the purpose of giving effect to a parentage testing order or an order under section 27 unless the person is a qualified person.

Maximum penalty: 2 penalty units.

(2) For the purposes of this section,
"qualified person" means:

(a) a medical practitioner, or

(b) a registered nurse, or

(c) any other person belonging to a class of persons prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.