21Power to take photographs and carry out non-intimate forensic procedures

21 Power to take photographs and carry out non-intimate forensic procedures

(1)  [Section 21 Subsection (1) amended by No. 53 of 2016, s. 9, Applied:29 Nov 2017] The Registrar or an authorised person may take, or may cause to be taken by a person authorised by him or her, the photograph of the reportable offender or may require the reportable offender to expose any part of his or her body to enable that part of the body to be photographed by the Registrar, authorised person or person authorised by the Registrar or authorised person.

(1A)  [Section 21 Subsection (1A) inserted by No. 53 of 2016, s. 9, Applied:29 Nov 2017] The Registrar or an authorised person may carry out, or may cause to be carried out by a person authorised by him or her, a non-intimate forensic procedure on a reportable offender.

(2)  The Registrar or authorised person, on receipt of a report made in person under this Part, may require the reportable offender –

(a) to be photographed; and

(b) [Section 21 Subsection (2) amended by No. 53 of 2016, s. 9, Applied:29 Nov 2017] to undergo a non-intimate forensic procedure; and

(c) to expose any part of his or her body to enable that part of the body to be photographed as provided under subsection (1) ; and

(d) to present for inspection any form of identification or other document, relating to the identity of the reportable offender, or to verify or support details in the report as specified by the Registrar or authorised person.

(3)  [Section 21 Subsection (3) substituted by No. 53 of 2016, s. 9, Applied:29 Nov 2017] In order to exercise a power under this section, the Registrar or an authorised person may detain a reportable offender, and authorise the use of reasonable force in respect of a reportable offender, if it is reasonably necessary to do so –

(a) to enable the reportable offender to be photographed; or

(b) to enable a non-intimate forensic procedure to be carried out in respect of the reportable offender; or