Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) Upon entry to a
place under this Division, a plumbing compliance officer may, for inspection
or compliance purposes —
(a)
require a person having the control or custody of the place to give reasonable
access to it and other reasonable assistance; or
(b)
inspect or examine the place; or
(c)
direct a person to produce any document that is or may be relevant to the
inspection; or
(d)
inspect any document produced, make copies of it or take extracts from it, and
remove it for as long as is reasonably necessary to make copies or extracts;
or
(e)
direct a person to answer questions.
(2) Upon entry to a
place under this Division, a plumbing compliance officer may, for inspection
purposes —
(a)
carry out, or supervise, reasonable tests on the plumbing; or
(b) take
photographs of or make other recordings of the place and plumbing; or
(c) take
or remove for analysis or examination samples of any thing relating to
plumbing or plumbing work in the place.
(3) A person is not
excused from answering a question that a plumbing compliance officer has
directed him or her to answer on the ground that the answer to the question
might tend to incriminate the person, but —
(a) the
answer to the question; or
(b) any
information, record or thing obtained as a direct consequence of the answer to
the question,
is not admissible in
evidence against the person in criminal proceedings other than proceedings for
an offence against regulation 90(3).
[Regulation 85 inserted: Gazette
28 Jun 2004 p. 2445‑6.]