Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Chief Health
Officer, and any authorised officer acting with the Chief Health
Officer’s authority, has all the powers of an authorised officer of a
local government, and may exercise those powers in any part of the State, and
the Chief Health Officer has all the rights and powers that the local
government would have in case its authorised officer exercised the power, or
to enable its authorised officer to exercise the power.
(2) Any provision of
this Act conferring any power on an authorised officer of a local government,
or relating to or connected with the exercise or intended exercise, or the
consequences of the exercise of any power by an authorised officer of a local
government, are to be construed and have effect for the purposes of this
section as if —
(a) the
references in the provision to an authorised officer of the local government
extended to the Chief Health Officer or any authorised officer acting with the
Chief Health Officer’s authority; and
(b) all
references in the provision to a local government extended to the Chief Health
Officer.
[Section 12 inserted: No. 19 of 2016 s. 8.]