Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) For
parliamentary purposes or for the proper conduct of the Minister’s
public business, the Minister is entitled —
(a) to
have information in the possession, or under the control, of the Board or a
subsidiary; and
(b)
where 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, in writing, request the Board
to —
(a) give
the Minister information or access to information; and
(b) make
its staff and facilities available to enable the Minister to access
information,
and the Board is
to comply with that request.
(3) This section does
not entitle the Minister to information in the possession of the Board or a
subsidiary in a form that —
(a)
discloses confidential information about a beneficiary; or
(b)
might enable confidential information about a beneficiary to be ascertained,
unless disclosure of
the information is —
(c)
authorised by the beneficiary; or
(d)
authorised or required by a written law.
(4) In this
section —
"beneficiary" means —
(a) a
Member; or
(b) a
former Member; or
(c) any
other person to whom —
(i)
a benefit has been or is being paid, or is or may become
payable; or
(ii)
a product or service has been provided by the Board;
"document" includes any tape, disc or other device
or medium on which data is recorded or stored mechanically, photographically,
electronically or otherwise;
"information" means information specified, or of a
description specified, by the Minister that relates to the functions or powers
of the Board;
"parliamentary purposes" means the purpose
of —
(a)
answering a question asked in a House of Parliament; or
(b)
complying with a written law, or an order or resolution of a House of
Parliament, that requires information to be furnished to a House of
Parliament.
[Section 36 amended by No. 18 of 2006
s. 13; No. 25 of 2007 s. 19(2).]