Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to this
section, the Electoral Commissioner may, at the request of a person or
organisation not referred to in section 25A, make enrolment information
available to that person or organisation.
(2) Enrolment
information is not to be made available under this section unless the
Electoral Commissioner considers that the public interest in making the
enrolment information available outweighs the public interest in protecting
the privacy of personal information.
(3) The Electoral
Commissioner must obtain from the person or organisation to which enrolment
information is to be made available under this section an undertaking that the
person or organisation —
(a) will
only use the enrolment information for the purpose for which the Commission
agreed to make it available; and
(b) will
not copy the enrolment information or give it to any other person or
organisation; and
(c) will
return the enrolment information to the Electoral Commissioner or destroy the
enrolment information after using it for the purpose for which the Electoral
Commissioner agreed to make it available.
(4) If by virtue of
section 51B information is not shown on a roll, that information is not
to be made available under this section.
(5) The regulations
may provide that if by virtue of section 51B information relating to a
person is not shown on a roll, that person’s name may be omitted when
the Electoral Commissioner makes enrolment information available under this
section.
(6) The Electoral
Commissioner may charge a fee that covers the cost of making enrolment
information available under this section.
[Section 25B inserted by No. 64 of 2006
s. 22.]