12Placement of volunteer’s information on DNA database system—the Act, s 118(2)(a)

12 Placement of volunteer’s information on DNA database system—the Act, s 118(2)(a)

12 Placement of volunteer’s information on DNA database system—the Act, s 118(2)(a)

(1) If, before a volunteer, or a parent or guardian of a volunteer, gives consent to the carrying out of a forensic procedure under the Act, Part 8, the police officer informs the volunteer, or parent or guardian, that—

(a) the police officer intends to place the volunteer’s information on one or more specified indexes of the DNA database system, the information—

(i) must only be placed on the specified index or indexes, and

(ii) must not be placed on another index, or

(b) the police officer does not intend to place the volunteer’s information on a specified index, the information must not be placed on the specified index.

(2) If the police officer does not inform the volunteer, or parent or guardian, of the police officer’s intentions about the placement of the volunteer’s information on the DNA database system, the information must not be placed on any index of the system.

(3) In this section—

volunteer’s information, for a volunteer, means the information obtained from the analysis of forensic material taken from the volunteer under the Act, Part 8.