182Fingerprints and the like

182 Fingerprints and the like (1) Where a person has been arrested for an offence or an attempt to commit an offence against section 120(1) or (2), 137(1), 176 or 177, a member of the Police Force at the police station to which the person is taken after arrest, or where the person is in custody, may take all such particulars as the member considers necessary for the identification of the person, including the person's voice print, photograph, fingerprints, palm prints, footprints, toe prints and handwriting. (2) In taking those particulars (other than any voice print or handwriting), such force as is reasonable in the circumstances may be used. (3) A court that convicts a person who appears personally before it of an offence or an attempt to commit an offence against section 120(1) or (2), 137(1), 176 or 177 may, in its discretion, order that person into the custody of a member of the Police Force for the purpose of obtaining any particulars referred to in (4) A member of the Police Force referred to in subsection (3) and any other member acting in aid of that member shall take the person to a place where those particulars can adequately be taken and take those particulars and may, for that purpose, use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances.

Gaming Machine Act 1995 159 (5) Where a person is found not guilty of an offence or an attempt to commit an offence against section 120(1) or (2), 137(1), 176 or 177, any voice print, photograph, fingerprints, palm prints, footprints, toe prints or handwriting previously taken under this section in relation to the alleged offence shall, on written request by the person, be destroyed in the person's presence or in the presence of a person nominated by the person.