Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) This section
applies to an offence against section 30 or the regulations.
(2) A park management
officer who finds a person committing an offence to which this section applies
or who on reasonable grounds suspects that such an offence has been committed
or is about to be committed by a person may —
(a)
require the person to give to the officer the person’s name and address;
(b)
stop, detain and search any vehicle if a person in or on the vehicle is, or is
suspected by the officer on reasonable grounds of being, the offender;
(c)
remove any vehicle, animal or other thing from designated land; and
(d)
enter and search any hut, tent or other structure that is not a permanent
residence.
(3) A person must,
when required to do so under subsection (2)(a), give the person’s
full and correct name and address.
(4) If a person does
not under subsection (3) give the person’s full and correct name
and address to a park management officer —
(a) the
person obstructs the park management officer in the performance of the
officer’s functions and section 30 applies accordingly; and
(b) the
park management officer may detain the person until the person can be
delivered to a police officer to be dealt with according to law.
(5) Before exercising
a power conferred by subsection (2)(b), (c) or (d) a park management
officer must take all reasonable steps to inform the person, or the owner or
person in charge of the vehicle, animal, hut, tent, structure or thing, as the
case requires, of —
(a) his
or her intention to exercise the power; and
(b) his
or her reasons for believing that the proposed exercise of the power is
justified.
(6) Nothing in this
section derogates from the powers of a park management officer who is a police
officer.