Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The chief
executive officer may cause to be erected, placed or marked, at places within
or on the boundaries of a departmental area, such notices and signs as the
chief executive officer considers necessary or desirable for the purpose of
indicating publicly —
(a) that
the area concerned is a departmental area;
(b) the
general extent of the departmental area;
(c) any
prohibition or restriction that applies under this Act to conduct in the
departmental area or in a portion of it;
(d) the
liability of any person who fails to comply with a prohibition or restriction
referred to in paragraph (c); or
(e) any
other matters relating to the departmental area or a portion of it.
(2) It is not a
defence to a charge of committing an offence under this Act to prove that a
notice or sign is not erected, placed or marked under this section at any
place unless an element of the offence is dependent on the existence of the
notice or sign.
(3) A person shall not
destroy, damage, deface, obliterate, move or otherwise interfere with a notice
or sign erected, placed or marked under this section.
Penalty: $500.
[Section 5B inserted by No. 78 of 1994
s. 5.]