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Police Administration Act 1978
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145A Non-intimate procedures
rank of Senior Sergeant or a higher rank may approve the carrying
out of a non-intimate procedure on a person:
(a) whom the member reasonably suspects has committed an
indictable offence; or
(b) who is in lawful custody charged with an offence punishable
by imprisonment.
(2) A member of the Police Force may, in accordance with the
approval, carry out the non-intimate procedure.
(2A) If the non-intimate procedure is the taking of a sample by buccal
swab, a member of the Police Force may direct the person to
provide the sample.
(3) A person is not to be taken to have provided a sample unless the
sample is sufficient to enable an analysis of it to be carried out.
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(4) A member of the Police Force may use reasonable force when
exercising his or her powers under this section.