Western Australian Current Acts

STATE RECORDS ACT 2000 - SECT 69

69 .         Commission to have powers of special inquirer under Public Sector Management Act 1994

        (1)         For the purpose of performing its functions, the Commission may investigate the record keeping of any government organization, other than a Schedule 3 organization.

        (2)         For that purpose the Commission, or a person authorised in writing by it, has all the powers conferred on a special inquirer by sections 24I and 24J of, and Schedule 4 to, the Public Sector Management Act 1994 and those provisions apply to and in relation to —

            (a)         the Commission or that person as if it or the person were a special inquirer under that Act; and

            (b)         the investigation as if it were a special inquiry under that Act.

        (3)         A person authorised by the Commission under subsection (2) to make an investigation must —

            (a)         within such period as the Commission requires, prepare a report on the conduct, findings and any recommendations of the investigation; and

            (b)         immediately after preparing the report, provide the Commission with a copy of it.

        [Section 69 amended: No. 39 of 2010 s. 85.]