Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person who
—
(a)
takes or removes from the mining tenement of any other person any mineral or
other mining product without the authority of that other person; or
(b)
assaults, obstructs, resists or insults —
(i)
any warden or any officer of the Department; or
(ii)
any other person duly authorised under this Act to
perform any act or duty, in the course of performance of that act or duty,
or who when required
to do so by him fails to give to any such warden, officer or person
information as to his name, address, or authorisation for being on any land or
who gives false or misleading information; or
(c) when
lawfully evicted or removed under this Act from any mining tenement, re-enters
the mining tenement or retakes possession thereof; or
(d)
prevents, resists or obstructs the taking or diverting of any water or the
doing of any other act by any person acting in pursuance of an order of the
warden’s court,
commits an offence
against this Act.
(2) Subsection (1)(a)
does not apply to a person who removes a mineral in the exercise of the
authorisation conferred by section 40D(1)(c).
[Section 156 amended: No. 122 of 1982 s. 28; No.
100 of 1985 s. 108; No. 63 of 2000 s. 6; No. 39 of 2004 s. 81; No. 51 of 2012
s. 37.]