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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (IDENTIFYING PEOPLE) AMENDMENT BILL 2011

                     Western Australia


Criminal Investigation (Identifying People)
          Amendment Bill 2011

                        CONTENTS


 1.    Short title                                         2
 2.    Commencement                                        2
 3.    Act amended                                         2
 4.    Section 62 amended                                  2
 5.    Section 63 amended                                  2
 6.    Section 64 amended                                  3
 7.    Section 65 amended                                  3
 8.    Section 66 amended                                  3
 9.    Section 67 amended                                  3
 10.   Section 78 deleted                                  3
 11.   Section 94 replaced                                 4
       94.      Transitional provision for Criminal
                Investigation (Identifying People)
                Amendment Act 2011                    4




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                     LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY



    Criminal Investigation (Identifying People)
              Amendment Bill 2011


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Criminal Investigation (Identifying People)
Act 2002.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




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 1   1.         Short title
 2              This is the Criminal Investigation (Identifying People)
 3              Amendment Act 2011.

 4   2.         Commencement
 5              This Act comes into operation as follows --
 6               (a) sections 1 and 2 -- on the day on which this Act
 7                     receives the Royal Assent;
 8               (b) the rest of the Act -- on the day after that day.

 9   3.         Act amended
10              This Act amends the Criminal Investigation (Identifying People)
11              Act 2002.

12   4.         Section 62 amended
13              Delete section 62(1)(a) and (b) and insert:
14

15                      (a)   must not --
16                              (i) be compared with other information,
17                                   whether or not in a forensic database; or
18                             (ii) be put in a forensic database;
19                            except in accordance with the decision of the
20                            volunteer, or responsible person, made or
21                            changed under section 20; and
22


23   5.         Section 63 amended
24        (1)   Delete section 63(1)(a) and insert:
25

26                      (a)   may be compared with other information,
27                            whether or not in a forensic database, in
28                            accordance with the direction of a coroner; and
29



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 1         (2)   Delete section 63(2).

 2   6.          Section 64 amended
 3         (1)   In section 64(1)(a) delete "subject to subsection (2) and".
 4         (2)   Delete section 64(2).

 5   7.          Section 65 amended
 6               In section 65(1):
 7                 (a) delete paragraph (b).
 8                 (b) after paragraph (a) insert:
 9

10                      and
11


12   8.          Section 66 amended
13               Delete section 66(2)(a) and insert:
14

15                       (a)   may be compared with other information,
16                             whether or not in a forensic database, as soon
17                             as it is obtained; and
18


19   9.          Section 67 amended
20               Delete section 67(1)(a) and insert:
21

22                       (a)   may be compared with other information,
23                             whether or not in a forensic database, as soon
24                             as it is obtained; and
25


26   10.         Section 78 deleted
27               Delete section 78.




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 1   11.           Section 94 replaced
 2                 Delete section 94 and insert:
 3


 4           94.         Transitional provision for Criminal Investigation
 5                       (Identifying People) Amendment Act 2011
 6                       Identifying information may be compared with other
 7                       information in accordance with Part 9 whether that
 8                       identifying information or the information to which it
 9                       is being compared was obtained or lawfully put in a
10                       forensic database before or after the commencement of
11                       the Criminal Investigation (Identifying People)
12                       Amendment Act 2011 section 11.
13




 


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