Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 487

487 Taking DNA sample from transferred prisoner

(1) This section applies to a transferred prisoner who is detained in a corrective services facility.

(2) A DNA sampler may, under an arrangement between the commissioner and the chief executive (corrective services)—

(a) enter the facility; and

(b) detain the prisoner and take the prisoner to an appropriate place in the facility for the purpose of taking a DNA sample from the prisoner for DNA analysis; and

(c) take the DNA sample from the prisoner.

(3) A corrective services officer under the Corrective Services Act 2006 may be present when the DNA sample is taken.

(4) This section has effect from when section 314 expires.

Editor’s note—

Previous section 314 (Taking DNA sample from prisoner in corrective services facility) expired on 2 February 2005.

(5) In this section—

"transferred prisoner" means—

(a) a prisoner who—

(i) was transferred to Queensland from another State under an arrangement under the Prisoners (Interstate Transfer) Act 1982 ; and

(ii) is serving a term of imprisonment for an indictable offence committed in the other State, even though the offence was dealt with summarily; or

(b) a prisoner who—

(i) is transferred to Australia from another country under the International Transfer of Prisoners Act 1997 (Cwlth) and is detained in a Queensland prison under an arrangement made under section 50 of that Act between the Governor-General and the Governor; and

Note—

The Governor may make the arrangement under the Prisoners International Transfer (Queensland) Act 1997 , section 8 .

(ii) is serving a term of imprisonment for an offence that, if committed in Australia, would be an indictable offence.