(1) If under this Act
a person may do a forensic examination on a thing relevant to an offence or a
sample of such a thing, the person may do any or all of the following —
(a)
examine or operate it;
(b)
photograph, measure or otherwise make a record of it;
(c) take
an impression of it;
(d) take
samples of or from it;
(e) do
tests on it, or on any sample taken under paragraph (d), for forensic
purposes.
(2) If it is
reasonably necessary to do so in order to exercise a power in subsection (1),
the thing may be dismantled, damaged or destroyed.
(3) A power in
subsection (1) must not be exercised in relation to a thing that may contain
information that is privileged, as that term is defined in section 151, until
under that section —
(a) a
decision is made that the information is not privileged; or
(b)
orders have been made to enable the power to be exercised.