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Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act 1995

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28: Access to and use of bodily samples held for DNA profile databank purposes

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"Rules for using bodily samples to get a DNA profile"

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You can't look at or use bodily samples, except to get a DNA profile. This is for storing the DNA profile on a DNA profile databank. You can get a DNA profile from a sample taken from someone under this Part of the law, or from a sample that section 60(2) applies to.

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28Access to and use of bodily samples held for DNA profile databank purposes

  1. No person may have access to, and no person may use, any bodily sample—

  2. to which section 60(2) applies; or
    1. taken from any person pursuant to this Part—
        1. except for the purpose of deriving from that sample a DNA profile for storage on a DNA profile databank.

      Notes
      • Section 28 heading: amended, on , by section 6 of the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 113).
      • Section 28: amended, on , by section 6 of the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 113).