Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:23wa:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23WA (pt 2/7)
Character Range: 1082534–1085233

country; or
 (c) any other authority or person responsible to the ICC for investigating or prosecuting a crime within the jurisdiction of the ICC; or
 (d) any other authority or person responsible to a War Crimes Tribunal for investigating or prosecuting a War Crimes Tribunal offence.
foreign serious offence means:
 (a) a foreign serious offence (within the meaning of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987); or
 (b) a crime within the jurisdiction of the ICC; or
 (c) a War Crimes Tribunal offence.
forensic evidence means one or more of the following:
 (a) evidence of forensic material, or evidence consisting of forensic material, taken from a suspect or a volunteer by a forensic procedure;
 (b) evidence of any results of the analysis of the forensic material;
 (c) any other evidence obtained as a result of or in connection with the carrying out of the forensic procedure.
forensic material means:
 (a) samples; or
 (b) hand prints, finger prints, foot prints or toe prints; or
 (c) photographs or video recordings; or
 (d) casts or impressions;
taken from or of a person's body by a forensic procedure.
forensic procedure means:
 (a) an intimate forensic procedure; or
 (b) a non‑intimate forensic procedure;
but does not include any intrusion into a person's body cavities except the mouth or the taking of any sample for the sole purpose of establishing the identity of the person from whom the sample is taken.
function includes a power, authority or duty.
ICC has the same meaning as in the International Criminal Court Act 2002.
incapable person means an adult who:
 (a) is incapable of understanding the general nature and effect of, and purposes of carrying out, a forensic procedure; or
 (b) is incapable of indicating whether he or she consents or does not consent to a forensic procedure being carried out.
in custody is explained in subsection (2).
indictable offence means:
 (a) an indictable offence against a law of the Commonwealth; or
 (b) a State offence that has a federal aspect and that is an indictable offence against the law of that State.
inform is explained in subsection (4).
informed consent is explained in sections 23WF, 23WG, 23XWG and 23XWR.
international tribunal means:
 (a) the ICC; or
 (b) a War Crimes Tribunal.
interview friend is explained in section 23WB.
intimate forensic procedure means the following forensic procedures:
 (a) an external examination of the genital or anal area, the buttocks or, in the case of a female or a transgender person who identifies as a female, the breasts;
 (b) the taking of a sample of blood (other than by a finger prick);
 (d) the taking of a sample of pubic hair;
 (e) the taking of a sample by swab