Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Amendment (Informed Consent) Regulation 2003 (NSW)

2003 No 193

New South Wales

Crimes (Forensic Procedures)

Amendment (Informed Consent)

Regulation 2003

under the

Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000.

BOB DEBUS, M.P.,

Attorney General

Explanatory note

Section 77 of the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000 sets out the matters that a volunteer or the parent or guardian of a volunteer must be informed about by a police officer before the volunteer or parent or guardian can give informed consent to the carrying out of a forensic procedure on the volunteer. Clause 7A of the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Regulation 2000 prescribes certain additional matters, including the fact that the DNA database system includes 2 indexes relevant to volunteers, a volunteers (limited purposes) index and a volunteers (unlimited purposes) index, and the differences in the use that may be made of information on each of the indexes. The object of this Regulation is to amend clause 7A to omit the requirement for a police officer to inform the volunteer or a parent or guardian of the use that may be made of information on those indexes.

This Regulation is made under the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000, including sections 77, 78 and 118 (the general regulation making-power).

Published in Gazette No 53 of 27 February 2003, page 3499	Page 1
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2003   Clause 1

Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Amendment (Informed

Consent) Regulation 2003

under the

Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Amendment
(Informed Consent) Regulation 2003.

2 Amendment of Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Regulation 2000

The Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Regulation 2000 is amended by omitting “, and the differences in the use that may be made of information on each of the indexes” from clause 7A (a).

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