Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HERITAGE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA ACT 1990 - SECT 72

72 .         Information, and persons obstructing execution of this Act etc.

        (1)         A person who is an owner, occupier, or person in charge or apparently in charge of any land or building shall furnish to any other person carrying out a function under this Act all reasonable facilities and all such information that the person is capable of furnishing as may be required by that other person with respect to the exercise of the powers and the discharge of the duties of that other person under this Act.

        (2)         The Council, by notice in writing served on a person who is the owner or occupier of any land or building, may require that person to furnish to the Council within 7 days or such longer period as may be specified in the notice, such information relating thereto as the Council requires by the notice for the purposes of this Act.

        (3)         An inspector may, by notice in writing, require any person who appears to the inspector to be carrying out, or proposing to carry out, works that might result in a contravention of this Act to furnish orally or, if so requested in that notice, in writing the name and address of the person who on the date specified in the notice was — 

            (a)         the owner of;

            (b)         the occupier of; or

            (c)         in control of any equipment, works or activity appearing to relate to,

                the place or part of a place concerned within the period specified in that notice.

        (4)         An inspector may require a person who the inspector believes has committed, or is about to commit, an offence under this Act — 

            (a)         to state that person’s full name and usual place of residence; and

            (b)         to leave any land to which this Act applies immediately.

        (5)         A person who — 

            (a)         wilfully delays or obstructs; or

            (b)         does not comply with any reasonable requirement made by,

                a person acting in the execution of this Act commits an offence.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        (6)         A person who, when required to give any information under this Act, knowingly gives or causes to be given information that to the knowledge of that person is false or misleading in a material particular, commits an offence.

        Penalty: $5 000.