Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In this section
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document includes any tape, disk or other device
or medium on which information is recorded or stored;
information means information specified, or of a
description specified, by the Minister.
(2) The Minister is
entitled —
(a) to
have information in the possession of the Corporation that relates to the
functions of the Corporation; and
(b) to
have information in the possession of the Commissioner that relates to the
functions of the Commissioner referred to in section 14A(1)(b) to (g); and
(c) if
the information referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) is in or on a document, to
have, and make and retain copies of, that document.
(3) For the purposes
of subsection (2) the Minister may —
(a)
request the Corporation or the Commissioner, as the case requires, to furnish
information to the Minister; and
(b)
request the Corporation or the Commissioner, as the case requires, to give the
Minister access to information; and
(c) for
the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the services of staff employed or
engaged by the Corporation to obtain the information and furnish it to the
Minister.
(4) The Corporation or
the Commissioner is to comply with a request under subsection (3) and the
Corporation is to arrange for its staff and facilities to be available to the
Minister for the purposes of subsection (3)(c).
(5) Subject to
subsection (6), the Minister is not entitled to have information under this
section in a form that —
(a)
discloses the identity of a person involved in a particular application,
complaint or proceeding; or
(b)
might enable the identity of any such person to be ascertained,
unless that person has
consented to the disclosure.
(6) Subsection (5)
does not apply to a report given to the Minister under section 14A(1)(eb).
[Section 18C inserted: No. 20 of 2011 s. 22;
amended: No. 12 of 2020 s. 10.]