Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Identifying
information of a person obtained under Part 4
Division 4 —
(a)
subject to subsection (2) and with the approval of the Commissioner of
Police, may be compared with other information, whether or not in a forensic
database, for or in connection with the forensic purposes prescribed for the
purposes of section 22(1);
(b) with
the approval of the person, may be put in a forensic database; and
(c) must
be destroyed if the person, having ceased to be a person who, under
section 22, may be required to undergo an identifying procedure, requests
the Commissioner of Police to destroy it.
(2) If that
identifying information is a DNA profile, it may only be compared with
information in a DNA database in accordance with section 78, and for the
purposes of that section the DNA profile is taken to have been obtained from a
volunteer under Part 4 Division 2 for or in connection with the
forensic purposes prescribed for the purposes of section 22(1).
(3) An approval for
the purposes of subsection (1) may apply generally or in relation to a
specific case or class of case.