Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) An enforcement
agency may designate a person or class of persons as authorised officers
—
(a) for
the purposes of this Act or another specified Act; or
(b) for
the purposes of the specified provisions of this Act or another specified Act;
or
(c) for
the purposes of the provisions of this Act or another specified Act other than
the specified provisions of that Act.
(2) The Chief Health
Officer may designate a person or class of persons under subsection (1) only
if the person or, as the case requires, the persons in that class are public
health officials.
(3) An enforcement
agency that is a local government may designate under subsection (1) —
(a) an
environmental health officer or environmental health officers as a class; or
(b) a
person who is not an environmental health officer or a class of persons who
are not environmental health officers; or
(c) a
mixture of the two.
(4) Enforcement
agencies that are local governments may act jointly in the designation of
persons or classes of persons as authorised officers.