Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) For parliamentary
purposes or for the proper conduct of the Minister’s public business,
the Minister is entitled —
(a) to
have information in the possession of the Board; and
(b)
where the information is in or on a document, to have, and make and retain
copies of, that document.
(2) For the purposes
of subsection (1) the Minister may —
(a)
request the Registrar to furnish information to the Minister;
(b)
request the Chairperson to give the Minister access to information; and
(c) for
the purposes of paragraph (b), make use of any staff or facilities
available to the Board to obtain the information and to furnish it to the
Minister.
(3) The Board shall
comply with a request made under subsection (2) and make staff and
facilities available to the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (c) of
that subsection.
(4) Prior to the
submission of the annual report of operations required by the
Financial Management Act 2006 , and at any other time the Minister so
requests, the Chairperson shall furnish to the Minister a report on the
activities of the Board not previously reported on, in terms of the conduct
and consequence of any inquiry, mediation, hearings or other matters relevant
to this Act.
(5) For the purposes
of this section —
document includes any data that is recorded or
stored mechanically, photographically, or electronically and any tape, disc or
other device or medium on which it is recorded or stored;
information means information specified, or of a
description specified, by the Minister that relates to the functions of the
Board;
parliamentary purposes means the purpose
of —
(a)
answering a question asked in a House of Parliament; or
(b)
complying with a written law, or an order or resolution of a House of
Parliament, that requires information to be furnished to a House of
Parliament.
[Section 17 amended by No. 77 of 2006
s. 17.]