Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The Executive
Director, Public Health and any medical officer or environmental health
officer acting with his authority, shall have all the powers of a medical
officer of health or environmental health officer of a local government, and
may exercise such powers in any part of the State, and the Executive Director,
Public Health shall have all such rights and powers as the local government
would have in case its medical officer of health or environmental health
officer exercised the power, or to enable such officer or environmental health
officer to exercise the power. Any provision of this Act conferring any power
on a medical officer of health or environmental health officer of a local
government, or relating to or connected with the exercise or intended
exercise, or the consequences of the exercise of any power by him, shall be
construed and have effect for the purposes of this section as if the
references therein to a medical officer of health or environmental health
officer of the local government extended to the Executive Director, Public
Health or any medical officer or environmental health officer acting with his
authority, and as if all references to a local government extended to the
Executive Director, Public Health.
[Section 12 amended by No. 17 of 1918
s. 3; No. 24 of 1970 s. 12; No. 28 of 1984 s. 45;
No. 59 of 1991 s. 5; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]