Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LAND INFORMATION AUTHORITY ACT 2006 - SECT 9

9 .         Functions

        (1)         The Authority’s main responsibilities include to provide, administer, and provide access to information in, land information systems as the laws of the State require.

        (2)         The land information systems provided under subsection (1) may include other information as well as the information that the laws of the State require them to contain and will include notifications of interests of a type determined by the Minister in accordance with subsection (3) and prescribed by regulation.

        (3)         The Minister will determine the types of interests in or notifications in respect of land that are issued or made by any public or private body, which must be notified to the Authority and be made publicly accessible on a basis which does not involve making a profit.

        (4)         The Authority may also provide, administer, and provide access to information in, land information systems other than those that are required by the laws of the State.

        (5)         The information that is in a land information system provided under subsection (1) or (4) may include information obtained from another person.

        (6)         The Authority’s main responsibilities under this Act also include to provide staff, systems, and other resources and support, and to provide services and facilities, for the performance of functions that any other Act gives to a member of the Authority’s staff.

        (7)         The Authority may also —

            (a)         under arrangements that may be agreed between the Authority and any other person keeping land information, whether in the public sector or the private sector and whether to comply with a statutory requirement or otherwise, provide goods and services to that person; and

            (b)         provide goods and services related to any of its other functions under this or any other Act or that it is able to provide because of expertise related to any of those functions.

        (8)         The Authority’s other responsibilities under this Act are to, at the request of the Minister or as the Authority considers appropriate —

            (a)         develop policy and advise the Minister or any public body on matters related to the Authority’s land information functions; and

            (b)         represent the State as a participant in the proceedings and activities of any body, whether local, national, or international, that has land information functions.