POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 533
Ministerial arrangements
533 Ministerial arrangements
(1) The Minister may, for the State, make an
arrangement with a declared agency, or a responsible Minister of another
jurisdiction, relating to any of the following—
(a) access by the declared
agency or an entity of the other jurisdiction to DNA material held by the
commissioner;
(b) access by the commissioner to DNA material held by a
declared agency or an entity of the other jurisdiction;
(c) the use by the
declared agency, an entity of the other jurisdiction or the commissioner of
the DNA material.
(2) An arrangement may recognise that access to, and
comparison of, the results of DNA analyses may be by use of the ACC database.
(3) The commissioner may, under an arrangement made under this section,
provide access to DNA material held by the commissioner or stored on the ACC
database to a declared agency or an entity of another jurisdiction.
(4) The
commissioner may use DNA material to which the commissioner has access under
an arrangement made under this section for performing any function of the
police service.
(5) In this section—
"DNA material" means—
(a) the results of DNA analyses of things whether or
not stored on a database; or
(b) things on which DNA analyses have been
performed.
"responsible Minister" , of another jurisdiction, means a Minister of the
Commonwealth or another State responsible for the administration of a law that
authorises the taking of a sample for DNA analysis.
