Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014
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Chapter 8 Recognition of accredited forensic service providers carrying out laboratory activities | ||
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Definitions (Chapter 8) | ||
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147. In this Chapter— | ||
“accredited”, in relation to a forensic service provider carrying out laboratory activities, means the forensic service provider is accredited by a national accreditation body as complying with the standard EN ISO/IEC 17025 entitled “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories”; | ||
“dactyloscopic data” means fingerprint images, images of fingerprint latents, palm prints, palm print latents and templates of such images (coded minutiae); | ||
“forensic service provider” means any organisation, whether public or private, that carries out laboratory activities at the request of competent law enforcement or judicial authorities in the State or a Member State; | ||
“Irish National Accreditation Board” means the committee commonly known by that name established pursuant to section 10 of the Industrial Development Act 1993 ; | ||
“laboratory activities” means measures taken in a laboratory when locating and recovering traces on items, as well as developing, analysing and interpreting forensic evidence, with a view to providing expert opinions or exchanging forensic evidence; | ||
“national accreditation body” means— | ||
(a) in the case of the State, the Irish National Accreditation Board, and | ||
(b) in the case of a Member State, the sole body in the Member State that performs accreditation with authority derived from the Member State in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 765/2008; | ||
“results”, in relation to laboratory activities, means any analytical outputs and directly associated interpretation. |