Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Commission may
request the chief officer of an issuing agency to —
(a)
produce evidence of an assumed identity in accordance with an assumed identity
approval; and
(b) give
evidence of an assumed identity to the officer specified in the approval.
(2) The request must
state a reasonable period for compliance with the request.
(3) The chief officer
of a public authority who receives a request under subsection (1) is
authorised and required to comply with the request.
(4) The chief officer
of an issuing agency that is not a public authority who receives a request
under subsection (1) is authorised to comply with the request, but does not
have to do so.
(5) For the purpose of
complying with a request under this section, the chief officer, and any other
officer of the issuing agency acting in accordance with the directions of the
officer in charge, are authorised to provide evidence of identity and make an
appropriate entry in a register or other record of information in accordance
with the request.
(6) In subsection (5)
—
appropriate entry , in respect of an assumed
identity, means a written or electronic entry that, either alone or with other
entries, is not inconsistent with the assumed identity being a real identity.
[Section 105 inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 17.]