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YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 2005 - SECT 8

Non-intimate procedures

    (1)     For this Act, a non-intimate procedure includes any of the following:

        (a)     taking a sample of saliva or a sample by buccal swab;

        (b)     an external examination of a non-intimate part of the body;

        (c)     taking a sample of hair other than pubic hair;

        (d)     taking a sample from an external non-intimate part of the body:

            (i)     by swab or washing; or

            (ii)     by vacuum suction, scraping or lifting by tape;

        (e)     taking a photograph of, or an impression or cast of a wound to, a non-intimate part of the body;

        (f)     an identifying procedure.

    (2)     In subsection (1):

"identifying procedure" means:

        (a)     the taking of prints of the hands, fingers, feet or toes; or

        (b)     the taking of photographs of the youth that are:

            (i)     of an identifying nature; and

            (ii)     of a non-intimate part of the body.



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