Western Australian Current Acts

MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1981 - SECT 20Y

20Y .         Annual report by Corruption and Crime Commission

        (1)         The Corruption and Crime Commission must, as soon as practicable after 30 June in each year, prepare a report of the exercise of powers under Division 3 for the preceding 12 months and give a copy of the report to the Minister and the Commissioner.

        (2)         The Commissioner must advise the Minister of any information in the report that, in the Commissioner’s opinion, should be excluded from the report before the report is laid before each House of Parliament because the information, if made public, could reasonably be expected to —

            (a)         endanger a person’s safety; or

            (b)         prejudice an investigation or prosecution; or

            (c)         compromise any operational activities or methodologies of the Police Force.

        (3)         The Minister must —

            (a)         exclude information from the report if satisfied on the advice of the Commissioner of any of the grounds set out in subsection (2); and

            (b)         insert a statement to the effect that information has been excluded from the report under paragraph (a).

        (4)         The Minister is to cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of Parliament within 15 sitting days from the day on which the report is received by the Minister.

        (5)         The report must include comments on the comprehensiveness and adequacy of reports provided to the Corruption and Crime Commission by the Commissioner.

        [Section 20Y inserted: No. 16 of 2023 s. 6.]