Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) by omitting from subsection (1) "or fingerprints" ;

(b) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (1) :

(1A)  The Registrar or an authorised person may carry out, or may cause to be carried out by a person authorised by him or her, a non-intimate forensic procedure on a reportable offender.

(c) by omitting paragraph (b) from subsection (2) and substituting the following paragraph:

(b) to undergo a non-intimate forensic procedure; and

(d) by omitting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsections:

(3)  In order to exercise a power under this section, the Registrar or an authorised person may detain a reportable offender, and authorise the use of reasonable force in respect of a reportable offender, if it is reasonably necessary to do so –

(a) to enable the reportable offender to be photographed; or

(b) to enable a non-intimate forensic procedure to be carried out in respect of the reportable offender; or

(c) to prevent loss, destruction or contamination of any forensic material taken from the reportable offender in accordance with this section.

(3A)  In detaining a reportable offender under subsection (3) , the Registrar or authorised officer must tell the reportable offender –

(a) why the reportable offender is being detained; and

(b) that the detention is authorised under this Act; and

(c) that the reportable offender will be released immediately after the purpose of the detention is fulfilled.

(3B)  A reportable offender detained under this section –

(a) must not be held for a period that is longer than is reasonably necessary to enable the purpose for the detention to be fulfilled; and

(b) must be released immediately after the purpose for the detention is fulfilled.

(e) by omitting from subsection (6) "the fingerprints or photographs" and substituting "the photographs or any forensic material, within the meaning of the Forensic Procedures Act 2000 , taken as a result of the carrying out of the non-intimate forensic procedure on the reportable offender" ;

(f) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (6) :

(7)  A non-intimate forensic procedure carried out on a reportable offender –

(a) must be carried out in circumstances affording reasonable privacy to the reportable offender undergoing the non-intimate forensic procedure; and

(b) is to be carried out in a manner consistent with appropriate medical or other relevant professional standards.