Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Minister is
entitled —
(a) to
have information in the possession of the Director; 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 —
(a)
request the Director to furnish information to the Minister;
(b)
request the Director to give the Minister access to information; and
(c) for
the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the staff referred to in
section 8 to obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.
(3) The Director is to
comply with a request under subsection (2) and make staff and facilities
available to the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (c) of that
subsection.
(4) 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
Director.
[Section 11 amended by No. 28 of 2006
s. 174.]
[Heading inserted by No. 20 of 1999
s. 8.]
[Heading inserted by No. 67 of 2003
s. 62.]