Defence Forces (Evidence) Act 2022

Amendment of section 115 of Act of 2014 (automated searching for certain DNA profiles in DNA analysis files of designated state)

89. Section 115 of the Act of 2014 is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) For the purposes of the investigation of criminal offences in the State, an authorised officer for DNA data may, in connection with an individual case—

(a) supply through the DNA Database System a DNA profile entered in—

(i) the crime scene index, or

(ii) the reference index, other than DNA profiles entered in that index under section 28,

or

(b) supply through the DNA (Military Police) Database System a DNA profile entered in—

(i) the crime scene (Military Police) index, or

(ii) the reference (Military Police) index, other than DNA profiles entered in that index under section 24 of the Act of 2022,

to the national contact point of a designated state for the purpose of conducting an automated search of the reference data in the DNA analysis files of that designated state by comparing the DNA profile concerned with the DNA profiles in those files to ascertain whether there is a match between them.”,

and

(b) in subsection (3), by the substitution of “the DNA Database System or the DNA (Military Police) Database System, as the case may be,” for “the DNA Database System”.