Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) An investigator is
a person who for remuneration conducts —
(a)
investigations into the conduct of individuals or bodies corporate or the
character of individuals;
(b)
surveillance work in relation to the matters referred to in paragraph (a); or
(c)
investigations concerning missing persons.
(2) Investigations
carried out by the following persons are not within paragraph (a) of the
definition in subsection (1) —
(a) any
legal practitioner while acting in the ordinary course of his or her
profession as such;
(b) any
clerk of such a practitioner acting in the ordinary course of the
practitioner’s profession;
(c) any
body corporate authorised under the Insurance Act 1973 of the Commonwealth to
carry on insurance business, while acting in the ordinary course of that
business;
(d) any
employee of a body corporate referred to in paragraph (c) while acting in the
ordinary course of his or her employer’s insurance business; or
(e) any
other prescribed person, or person belonging to a prescribed class of persons,
while acting in any prescribed circumstances.
[Section 28 amended: No. 65 of 2003 s. 65; No. 21
of 2008 s. 703; No. 9 of 2022 s. 424.]