Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) An energy operator
may appoint an officer of the energy operator to be an inspector.
[(2) deleted]
(3) Every person
appointed to be an inspector pursuant to subsection (1) shall be furnished
with a certificate in the prescribed form and an inspector shall produce that
certificate whenever requested so to do by any person apparently having the
charge of any land, premises, or thing in respect of which he has exercised or
is about to exercise any of his powers.
[(4) deleted]
(5) Production of a
certificate in the prescribed form is prima facie evidence in any Court of the
appointment of the inspector to whom that certificate relates and of his
authority as such an inspector to exercise the power conferred upon such an
inspector under this Act.
(6) For the purposes
of facilitating the carrying out of his duties an inspector may be accompanied
by any interpreter, technical adviser, or workman who the inspector thinks
competent and necessary to assist him in making any inspection or examination,
and any reference to an inspector in this Act in the context of the right of
entry or in relation to the powers or duties conferred or imposed by this
section shall be deemed to include a reference to a person of the kind
referred to in this subsection when that person is accompanied by, and acting
in the course of his duties on behalf of, an inspector.
(7) In the exercise of
his powers under this section an inspector shall conform so far as is
practicable to any reasonable requirement of a person owning or using the
land, premises, or thing inspected which is requested by that person in order
to prevent the working of any business or the conduct of any operations being
thereby obstructed; but subject to the compliance by the inspector with the
requirements of this Act an inspector may for the purpose of the exercise of
his powers and the discharge of his duties require a person having the custody
or control of any land, premises or thing in respect to which the inspector is
authorised to exercise any power to furnish such reasonable access to
apparatus, facilities and other assistance and relevant information as he is
capable of furnishing to that inspector.
(8) Subject to this
Act (including the regulations and by-laws made under this Act) an inspector
appointed under this section may —
(a)
enter without notice on or into any land, premises or thing where any plant,
works or apparatus of the energy operator is or may be situated and inspect
all such plant, works or apparatus; and
(b) if
the inspector has reasonable cause to believe that a consumer is attempting to
circumvent or prevent the due regulation or recording of the supply of energy
to the consumer by the energy operator, enter without notice on or into any
land, premises or thing where any plant, works or apparatus of the consumer is
or may be situated and inspect all such plant, works or apparatus; and
(c) take
with him such persons as he thinks competent and necessary to assist him in
making any inspection.
[Section 68 amended: No. 101 of 1981 s. 18; No. 24
of 1986 s. 29; No. 89 of 1994 s. 26; No. 58 of 1999 s. 83(2) and (3).]