Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Amendment (Responsible Person and Corresponding Laws) Regulation 2007 (NSW)

2007 No 563

New South Wales

Crimes (Forensic Procedures)

Amendment (Responsible Person and

Corresponding Laws) Regulation 2007

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.

JOHN HATZISTERGOS, M.L.C.,

Attorney General

Explanatory note
The Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Regulation 2000 prescribes certain laws of the Commonwealth, the States and Territories as corresponding laws for the purposes of the definition of corresponding law in section 95 of the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000. That definition relates to the interstate enforcement of orders for carrying out forensic procedures and to the DNA database system.
The Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Regulation 2000 also provides for the declaration, for the purposes of the definition of responsible person in section 3 (1) of the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000, of the person responsible for the care, control and management of the DNA database system.
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Regulation 2000 to make amendments in the nature of law revision to the list of laws prescribed as corresponding laws and to declare the Chief Executive of the Sydney West Area Health Service to be the responsible person for the purposes of the DNA database system.

This Regulation is made under the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000, including the definition of responsible person in section 3 (1), the definition of corresponding law in section 95 and section 118 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 175 of 30 November 2007, page 8683	Page 1
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Clause 1	Corresponding Laws) Regulation 2007

Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Amendment
(Responsible Person and Corresponding Laws)

Regulation 2007

under the

Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Amendment
(Responsible Person and Corresponding Laws) Regulation 2007.

2      Commencement

(1)	This Regulation commences on the day it is published in the Gazette, except as provided by subclause (2).
(2)	Schedule 1 [1] commences on 30 November 2007.

3 Amendment of Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Regulation 2000

The Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Regulation 2000 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 3)

[1]      Clause 6A Responsible person

Omit “the Director of the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical
Research”.

Insert instead “the Chief Executive of the Sydney West Area Health Service”.

[2]      Clause 12 Corresponding laws

Omit “Part 4 of Chapter 8” from the matter relating to Queensland.
Insert instead “Chapter 17”.

[3]      Clause 12

Omit “1998” from the matter relating to South Australia.
Insert instead “2007”.

[4]      Clause 12

Omit the matter relating to Western Australia. Insert instead:

Criminal Investigation (Identifying People) Act 2002 of Western

Australia.

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