Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINIMUM CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 45

45 .         Access to records kept by employer

        (1)         An employer, on request in writing by a relevant person, must — 

            (a)         produce to the person the records under section 44 relating to an employee to whom that section applies; and

            (b)         let the person inspect the records.

        (1a)         A contravention of subsection (1) is not an offence but that subsection is a civil penalty provision for the purposes of section 83E of the IR Act.

        (1b)         Subsection (1a) extends to a contravention that occurred within the period of 12 months ending on the coming into operation of section 41 of the Labour Relations Legislation Amendment Act 2006 unless the employer was charged with an offence in respect of that contravention.

        (2)         Relevant persons are — 

            (a)         the employee or a person authorised in writing by the employee; and

            (b)         an industrial inspector under the IR Act.

        (3)         The duty placed on an employer by subsection (1) — 

            (a)         continues so long as the record is required to be kept under section 44(3)(b);

            (b)         is not affected by the fact that the employee is no longer employed by the employer;

            (c)         includes the further duties — 

                  (i)         to let the relevant person enter premises of the employer for the purposes of inspection of the records; and

                  (ii)         to let the relevant person take copies of or extracts from the records;

                and

            (d)         must be complied with not later than the end of the next pay period after the request for inspection is received.

        [Section 45 amended by No. 20 of 2002 s. 177; No. 36 of 2006 s. 41.]

[ 46.         Deleted by No. 36 of 2006 s. 42.]