6. Functions of authenticating officer
Feedback & supportAn authenticating officer shall authenticate the fingerprint form—
authenticating officer
“authenticating officer” means— (a) the prosecuting officer responsible for authenticating the result of a case at the conclusion of the case where a person is charged with a registrable offence; (b) the police officer responsible for the final removal of the banishee out of the Federation and for authenticating the removal; (c) the police officer responsible for serving the expulsion order on the expelee and for authenticating the expulsion;
at the conclusion of the case where a person is—
acquitted and discharged of a registrable offence;
found guilty of a registrable offence without a conviction being recorded under any order of the court binding over the accused to be of good behaviour, placing the accused under probation or under any other similar order of the court which finds the accused guilty of a registrable offence but dispenses with an order of conviction; or
convicted of a registrable offence;
when a banishee is finally removed out of the Federation;
when an expelee is served with an expulsion order;
when a deportee is finally removed out of the
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when a restrictee is placed under restricted residence, and shall forward the form duly authenticated to the Registrar who shall (subject to this Act) retain the form.