16Personal identifiers

16 Personal identifiers

For paragraph 26(1)(g) of Schedule 2 to the Act, the personal identifiers are as follows: (a) a sample of a person’s handwriting; (b) a photograph of a tattoo, scar or other identifying mark of a person, if the obtaining of the photograph does not involve: (i) the removal of any of the person’s clothing; or (ii) the carrying out of an intimate forensic procedure within the meaning of section 23WA of the Crimes Act 1914.

Note: Subsection 23WA(1) of the Crimes Act 1914 provides that intimate forensic procedure means any of the following forensic procedures:

(a) an external examination of the genital or anal area, the buttocks or, in the case of a female or a transgender person who identifies as a female, the breasts;
(b) the taking of a sample of blood;
(c) the taking of a sample of saliva, or a sample by buccal swab;
(d) the taking of a sample of pubic hair;
(e) the taking of a sample by swab or washing from the external genital or anal area, the buttocks or, in the case of a female or a transgender 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 the external genital or anal area, the buttocks or, in the case of a female or a transgender person who identifies as a female, the breasts;
(g) the taking of a dental impression;
(h) the taking of a photograph or video recording of, or an impression or cast of a wound from, the genital or anal area, the buttocks or, in the case of a female or a transgender person who identifies as a female, the breasts.