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 Commission; 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 Commission to furnish information to the Minister;
(b)
request the Commission to give the Minister access to information;
(c) for
the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the staff of the Commission to
obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.
(3) The Commission
shall comply with a request under subsection (2) and make its staff and
facilities available to the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (c) of
that subsection.
(4) In this
section —
document includes any tape, disc or other device
or medium on which information is recorded or stored mechanically,
photographically, electronically or otherwise;
information means information specified, or of a
description specified, by the Minister that relates to the functions of the
Commission;
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 6B inserted by No. 29 of 1993
s. 5.]