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POLICE ADMINISTRATION ACT 1978 - SECT 147C

Retaining and analysing samples

    (1)     The Commissioner may retain a sample for the period that he or she thinks fit.

    (2)     A sample may be subjected to any analysis that the Commissioner thinks fit and any information obtained may be recorded in the databases maintained under this Act.

    (3)     However, a DNA analysis of the sample must be a type or method of DNA analysis prescribed by the Regulations.

    (4)     In this section:

"sample" means anything obtained from carrying out a forensic procedure.



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