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COMMUNITY PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING) ACT 2004 - SECT 40

40 .         Power to take photographs

        (1)         An authorised person receiving a report made in person under this Part may require the reportable offender —

            (a)         to be photographed; and

            (b)         to expose any part of his or her body to enable that part of the body to be photographed by the officer or a person authorised by the officer.

        (2)         An authorised person cannot, under subsection (1), require a reportable offender to expose his or her genitals, the anal area of his or her buttocks or, in the case of females, or males undergoing a reassignment procedure within the meaning of the Gender Reassignment Act 2000 , their breasts.

        (3)         An authorised person may photograph any premises or vehicle included in the personal details reported by a reportable offender under this Part.

        (4)         Subsection (3) does not confer a power on an authorised person to enter any premises or vehicle.

        [Section 40 amended: No. 54 of 2012 s. 17.]



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