Institutional Burials Act 2022

Generation of DNA profile from sample referred to in section 51

52. (1) A sample of a person (in this Act referred to as an “applicable person”) which is being used in accordance with section 51 (2), may only be forensically tested, and the DNA profile of the person generated from that testing included in the family members’ index, for the purposes referred to in that provision.

(2) A Director shall make the necessary arrangements to ensure a sample referred to in subsection (1) is delivered to FSI.

(3) FSI shall forensically test a sample delivered to it under subsection (2) and enter the DNA profile of the applicable person, generated from that testing, in the family members’ index.