Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts In this Part, unless
the contrary intention appears —
client , of a lawyer, includes a person who makes
a genuine inquiry of a lawyer about a personal injury;
hospital includes —
(a) any
premises used for receiving, caring for, or treating, persons who are injured,
sick, or mentally ill; and
(b) any
premises used for providing a service for maintaining, improving, or
restoring, a person’s health and wellbeing; and
(c) any
land or building occupied or used in connection with premises described in
paragraph (a) or (b);
law practice has the meaning given in the Legal
Profession Uniform Law (WA) section 6(1);
potential claimant means —
(a) a
person who suffers, or may suffer, personal injury arising out of an incident;
or
(b)
another person who has, or may have, a claim arising out of that personal
injury;
printed publication includes a newspaper,
magazine, journal, periodical, or directory;
public place means a place or vehicle that —
(a) the
public, or a section of the public, is entitled to use; or
(b) is
open to, or is being used by, the public or a section of the public,
whether on payment of money, through membership of
a club or other body, or otherwise;
publish means —
(a) to
include in a printed publication; or
(b) to
disseminate by the exhibition or broadcast of a photograph, slide, film, video
recording, audio recording or other recording of images or sound, either as a
public exhibition or broadcast or as an exhibition or broadcast to persons
attending a place for the purposes of receiving professional advice,
treatment, or assistance; or
(c) to
broadcast by radio or for television; or
(d) to
include on an internet website or otherwise publicly disseminate by means of
the internet; or
(e) to
publicly exhibit in, on, over, or under, any building, vehicle, or place, or
in the air, in view of persons in or on any street or public place; or
(f) to
include in a document gratuitously sent or delivered to any person or thrown
or left on premises occupied by any person or left on a vehicle; or
(g) to
include in a document provided to a person as a receipt or record for a
transaction.
[Section 16 amended: No. 65 of 2003 s. 19(2); No.
21 of 2008 s. 646(2); No. 9 of 2022 s. 339.]