Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) An assumed
identity approval authorises the officer of the Commission to whom it applies
to acquire and use an assumed identity specified in the approval if the
acquisition and use are —
(a) in
the course of, or incidental to, duty; and
(b) in
accordance with the assumed identity approval.
(2) The officer can
use an assumed identity under the authority of an assumed identity approval
without having actually acquired the identity.
(3) For the purposes
of this Division —
(a) an
officer acquires an assumed identity by obtaining evidence of the identity
under the assumed identity, including by obtaining the making of an entry in
any register or other record of information; and
(b) an
officer uses an assumed identity by —
(i)
representing it to be the officer’s true identity;
or
(ii)
acting in a way that is consistent with such an identity
rather than the officer’s real identity.
(4) An assumed
identity approval also authorises —
(a) the
making (by the officer to whom the approval applies or by the Commission) of
any false or misleading representation about the officer, for the purposes of
or in connection with the acquisition or use of the assumed identity by the
officer; and
(b) the
use by the officer of the assumed identity to obtain evidence of the identity.
[Section 104 inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 17.]