Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA ACT 1998 - SECT 18

18 .         Minister to have access to information

(1)                 The Minister is entitled —

            (a)         to have information in the possession of the Authority; and

            (b)         if 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 Authority to provide information to the Minister;

            (b)         request the Authority to give the Minister access to information;

            (c)         for the purposes of paragraph (b), make use of a member of staff to obtain the information and provide it to the Minister.

        (3)         The Authority is to 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;

        information means information specified, or of a description specified, by the Minister that relates to the functions of the Authority.

        [Heading inserted by No. 38 of 2002 s. 11.]