New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (FORENSIC PROCEDURES) ACT 2000 - SECT 75ZD

75ZD Refusal or failure to permit forensic procedure

(1) An untested registrable person in respect of whom a forensic procedure is ordered to be carried out under section 75ZC must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to permit the forensic procedure to be carried out.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or 12 months imprisonment, or both.

(2) If a police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a person has committed an offence under this section, the police officer may, without a warrant, arrest the person for the purpose of carrying out the forensic procedure concerned.

(3) A police officer who arrests a person under subsection (2) must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the forensic procedure is carried out, release the person.

(4) Nothing in this section affects any power of a police officer to arrest and deal with the person under Part 8 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 .