Where the Attorney General receives a request from a foreign competent authority for (a) the taking of and supply of dactyloscopic data; or(b) the taking and examination of a non-intimate sample; or(c) the DNA profile of a person suspected in that place of a relevant offence or of a person accused, in proceedings before the courts of that place or international tribunal, of a relevant offence, such request is communicated to a Magistrate and the Magistrate shall order the arrest of the person and give the necessary orders in order to enable the taking of such samples etc. The Magistrate shall transmit the said data, sample or profile, together with any report or result of the examination, to the Attorney General. The necessary work would be carried out by experts appointed by a Magistrate. It shall also be lawful for the magistrate to order that any suspect be photographed or measured or that his fingerprints be taken or that any part of his body or clothing be examined by experts appointed by him for the purpose. The person may be arrested for this purpose. However, such arrest cannot be ordered by the Magistrate unless the facts amounting to the offence which such person is accused or suspected to have committed amount also to an offence which may be prosecuted in Malta.