Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Any person who
obstructs, hinders, resists, or in anywise opposes the CEO, the Chief Health
Officer, any authorised officer, or any officer or other person appointed,
employed, or authorised under this Act or any regulation or local law in the
performance of any thing which he is empowered or required to do by this Act
or any regulation, order, or local law commits an offence.
(2) Any person who
wilfully destroys, pulls down, injures, or defaces any exhibited regulation,
local law, notice, order, or other matter commits an offence, if the same was
put up by authority of the CEO, the Chief Health Officer, an authorised
officer or the local government.
(3) If the occupier of
any premises prevents the owner thereof from obeying or carrying into effect
any of the provisions of this Act or of any regulation, order, or local law,
any justice to whom application is made in that behalf shall, by order in
writing, require such occupier to permit the execution of any works required
to be executed, provided that the same appear to such justice to be necessary
for the purpose of obeying or carrying into effect the provisions of this Act
or such regulation, order, or local law; and any such occupier who does not,
within 48 hours after the making of the order, comply with such a requirement
commits an offence.
(4) Every such owner,
during the continuance of such refusal, shall be discharged from any penalties
to which he might otherwise have become liable by reason of his default in
carrying into effect any of the provisions of this Act or of such regulation,
order, or local law.
(5) Any occupier of
premises who, when requested by or on behalf of the CEO, the Chief Health
Officer, an authorised officer or the local government to state the name of
the owner of such premises, refuses or wilfully omits to disclose, or wilfully
misstates the name of such owner, commits an offence.
[Section 351, formerly section 275, renumbered as
section 351: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1); No. 28 of
1984 s. 35; No. 80 of 1987 s. 166; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 28 of 2006 s. 251;
No. 19 of 2016 s. 88.]