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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 175A

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 175A

175A .         Authorising etc. inspectors; oath etc. by inspectors

        (1)         The chief executive officer may authorise persons as inspectors for the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Before performing any function of an inspector under this Act, a person authorised as an inspector is required to take and subscribe before a justice of the peace an oath or affirmation to the effect that the person will not, except for the purposes of this Act, and the exercise of the person’s duties under this Act, disclose to any person any information acquired as an inspector.

        (3)         A person who wilfully discloses any information contrary to an oath taken under subsection (2) commits an offence.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        (4)         The chief executive officer is to issue to each person authorised as an inspector a certificate stating that the person is so authorised.

        (5)         The inspector is to produce the certificate whenever required to do so by a person in respect of whom the inspector has exercised, or is about to exercise, a power under this Act.

        (6)         If, immediately before the commencement of the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Amendment Act 2011 section 119, a person was an inspector authorised by WorkCover WA under subsection (1), as in force at that time, the person is taken to have been authorised as an inspector by the chief executive officer.

        (7)         If, immediately before the commencement of the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Amendment Act 2011 section 119, a person authorised as an inspector held a certificate issued by the Chairman of WorkCover WA under subsection (4), as in force at that time, the person is taken to hold a certificate issued by the chief executive officer.

        [Section 175A inserted: No. 34 of 1999 s. 46(1); amended: No. 42 of 2004 s. 150; No. 31 of 2011 s. 119.]