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Act index » Part III - Procedure and punishment » Division 1 - Pleading procedure, proof &c. » Subdivision (30A) - Custody and investigation
464ZC Analysis of material found at scene of offence etc.
a person suspected of having committed that offence and from whom a sample has been taken in relation to that offence may request a part of the child's sample.
(1)If material reasonably believed to be from the body of a person who committed an indictable offence has been found— and there is sufficient material to be analysed both in the investigation of the offence and on behalf of a person from whom a sample has been taken in relation to that offence, a part of the material sufficient for analysis must, on request, be delivered to that person.
S. 464ZC(1) amended by No. 81/1997 s. 23 (ILA s. 39B(1)).
(a)at the scene of the offence; or
(b)on the victim of the offence or on anything reasonably believed to have been worn or carried by the victim when the offence was committed; or
(c)on an object or person reasonably believed to have been associated with the commission of the offence—
(2)If material, reasonably believed to be from the body of a victim of an indictable offence which has not been found, has been found on a person reasonably believed to have been associated with the commission of the offence, and there is sufficient material to be analysed both in the investigation of the offence and on behalf of a person from whom a sample has been taken in relation to that offence, a part of the material sufficient for analysis must, on request, be delivered to that person.
(b)that child was conceived allegedly as a result of that offence—
(4)A part of that child's sample requested by a person under subsection (3) must be delivered to that person provided that there is sufficient material to be analysed both in the investigation of the offence and on behalf of the person suspected of having committed the offence.