Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) No CEO or Chief
Health Officer, and no member of the council of a local government or person
employed by a local government, shall be personally concerned or interested
directly or indirectly in any bargain or contract entered into by or on behalf
of the Government of the State or such local government respectively.
But this subsection
shall not apply to any such bargain or contract entered into by a member of
the council of a local government as he or she, while being such member, could
lawfully enter into.
(2) If the CEO, the
Chief Health Officer or any member or person is concerned or interested in the
circumstances referred to in subsection (1), or if the CEO, the Chief Health
Officer or any member or person, under colour of his or her office or
employment, exacts, takes, or accepts any fee or reward whatsoever, other than
his or her proper salary, wages, remuneration, and allowances, he or she shall
be incapable of afterwards holding or continuing in any office or employment
under this Act, and commits an offence.
[Section 366, formerly section 290, renumbered as
section 366: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1); No. 28 of
1984 s. 40; No. 80 of 1987 s. 173; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 28 of 2006 s. 251;
No. 19 of 2016 s. 93.]