CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 21

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 21

21 .         Forensic examination of thing relevant to offence

        (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.