Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000 No 59
Current version for 6 January 2012 to date (accessed 26 May 2013 at 15:52)
Part 7BSection 75ZD

75ZD   Refusal or failure to permit forensic procedure

(1)  An untested registrable person in respect of whom a forensic procedure is ordered to be carried out under section 75ZC must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to permit the forensic procedure to be carried out.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or 12 months imprisonment, or both.

(2)  If a police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a person has committed an offence under this section, the police officer may, without a warrant, arrest the person for the purpose of carrying out the forensic procedure concerned.
(3)  A police officer who arrests a person under subsection (2) must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the forensic procedure is carried out, release the person.
(4)  Nothing in this section affects any power of a police officer to arrest and deal with the person under Part 8 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002.
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