Status of Children Act 1996
33Offence: Taking of bodily sample by unqualified persons
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33 Offence: Taking of bodily sample by unqualified persons
33 Offence: Taking of bodily sample by unqualified persons
(1) A person must not take any bodily sample purportedly for the purpose of giving effect to a parentage testing order or an order under section 27 unless the person is a qualified person.
Maximum penalty—2 penalty units.
(2) For the purposes of this section, qualified person means—
(a) a medical practitioner, or
(b) a registered nurse, or
(c) any other person belonging to a class of persons prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.