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 personnel and facilities of
the Commission to obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.
(3) The Commission
must comply with a request under subsection (2) and make its personnel
and facilities available to the Minister for the purposes of
paragraph (c) of that subsection.
(4) The Minister is
not entitled to have information under this section in a form
that —
(a)
discloses the identity of a person with a disability; or
(b)
might enable the identity of any such person to be ascertained,
unless that person has
consented to the disclosure.
(5) 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.