Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000
7What is a non-intimate forensic procedure?
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7 What is a non-intimate forensic procedure? A non-intimate forensic procedure is any of the following forensic procedures: (a) an examination of a part of the body (other than the genital or anal area, buttocks, or, for a female or a transgender or intersex person who identifies as a female, the breasts) that requires touching of the body or removal of clothing; (b) the taking of a sample of hair (other than pubic hair);
(c) the taking of a sample from a nail or under a nail; (d) the taking of a sample of saliva or a sample by buccal swab; (e) the taking of a sample by swab or washing from any external part of the body (other than the genital or anal area, the buttocks, or, for of a female or a transgender or intersex person who identifies as a female, the breasts); (f) the taking of a sample by vacuum suction, by scraping or by lifting by tape from any external part of the body (other than the genital or anal area, the buttocks, or, for a female or a breasts); (g) the taking of a handprint, fingerprint, footprint or toeprint; (h) the taking of a photograph or video recording of, or an impression or cast of a wound from, a part of the body (other than the genital or anal area, the buttocks, or, for a female or a breasts).