Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) This section
applies to an inspector who enters a place under this Part.
(2) For monitoring or
enforcing compliance with this Act, the inspector may —
(a)
search any part of the place; and
(b)
examine, inspect, photograph or film anything on the place; and
(c) copy
a document on the place; and
(d) take
into or onto the place any persons, equipment and materials the inspector
reasonably requires for exercising a power under this Part; and
(e)
require a person in the place to give the inspector reasonable help to
exercise the powers mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (d).
(3) A person required
to give reasonable help under subsection (2)(e) must comply with the
requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $2 000.
(4) If the help is
required to be given to an inspector by —
(a)
answering a question; or
(b)
producing a document, other than a document required to be kept under this
Act,
it is a reasonable
excuse for the person to fail to answer the question, or produce the document,
if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.
[Section 415 amended: No. 7 of 2016 s. 158.]