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Youth Justice Act 2005
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8 Non-intimate procedures
(1) For this Act, a non-intimate procedure includes any of the following:
(a) taking a sample of saliva or a sample by buccal swab;
(b) an external examination of a non-intimate part of the body;
(c) taking a sample of hair other than pubic hair;
(d) taking a sample from an external non-intimate part of the
body:
(i) by swab or washing; or
(ii) by vacuum suction, scraping or lifting by tape;
(e) taking a photograph of, or an impression or cast of a wound
to, a non-intimate part of the body;
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(f) an identifying procedure.
identifying procedure means:
(a) the taking of prints of the hands, fingers, feet or toes; or
(b) the taking of photographs of the youth that are:
(i) of an identifying nature; and
(ii) of a non-intimate part of the body.