Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Minister is
entitled —
(a) to
have information in the possession of the Board; and
(b) if
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 —
(a)
request the Board to furnish information to the Minister;
(b)
request the Board to give the Minister access to information; and
(c) for
the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the staff of the Board to
obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.
(3) The Board is
to —
(a)
comply with a request under subsection (2); and
(b) make
its staff and facilities available to the Minister for the purposes of
subsection (2)(c).
(4) The Minister is
not entitled to have information under this section in a form
that —
(a)
discloses the identity of a person involved in a complaint; or
(b)
might enable the identity of any such person to be ascertained,
unless that person has
consented to the disclosure.
(5) In this
section —
document includes any tape, disc or other device
or medium on which information 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 of the
Board;
staff means any person whose services are the
subject of an arrangement under section 59G(1).
[Section 59F inserted by No. 39 of 1999
s. 7.]