Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where the
Commission believes that a person is capable of giving information or
producing books or other evidence material to a matter that is in the opinion
of the Commission likely to be relevant to the investigation of any suspected
offence under this Act or any other written law relating to gambling, or
otherwise to the functions of the Commission or the Minister, the Commission,
by notice in writing served on that person, may require that person —
(a) to
give the information or produce the books or other evidence to the Commission,
or to a person specified in the notice acting on behalf of the Commission,
within the time and in the manner specified in the notice; or
(b) to
cause the same to be so given or produced.
(2) Without limiting
the generality of subsection (1), the power of the Commission under that
subsection includes the power —
(a) to
require any corporation within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of
the Commonwealth or any other body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, to
give particulars of the names and addresses of persons who are the holders of
shares or other interests in that corporation or other body; and
(b) to
require a person who is registered or otherwise recorded as the holder of
shares or other interests in that corporation or other body to give to the
Commission all relevant information, or such information as the Commission may
specify, in the possession or control of the person in relation to the
beneficial ownership of those shares or that interest, or any right attaching
to those shares or that interest, or in relation to any trust, agreement,
arrangement, understanding or practice, affecting those shares or that
interest or any right attaching to those shares or that interest; and
(c) to
require that the information be verified by statutory declaration signed by a
person or the holder of an office specified by the Commission, or by a
competent officer of the corporation or other body; and
(d) to
require a person from whom the Commission may seek information to afford to
the Commission such facilities in matters relating to that information as may
be necessary to enable the information to be interpreted or collated or as the
Commission may from time to time specify.
(3) In connection with
any pending application for a permit the Commission may at any time require
accounts to be furnished by —
(a) the
organiser or manager of any permitted gaming; or
(b) any
promoter, secretary, treasurer, or any one of the committee of any body of
persons by or on whose behalf any gaming was or is to be conducted,
in relation to the
gaming generally conducted by or on behalf of that person previously, or such
aspects as the Commission may specify, and may in connection with the accounts
require the production to the Commission of all books and things relating to
the gaming, where no report pursuant to section 57 was required to be
furnished.
[Section 27 amended: No. 24 of 1998 s. 41; No. 10
of 2001 s. 86; No. 35 of 2003 s. 166 and 167.]