Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person must
not —
(a)
obstruct, hinder, or interfere with an inspector or assistant inspector
lawfully acting in the execution or performance of a function conferred or
imposed on an inspector or assistant inspector under this Act; or
(b)
fail, without reasonable excuse, to answer any question put to that person for
the purposes of this Act by an inspector or assistant inspector or give a
false or misleading answer to any such question, or refuse to make any
statutory declaration that the person is required under this Act to make; or
(c) use
any threat or any abusive or insulting language to an inspector or assistant
inspector lawfully acting in the execution or performance of a function
conferred or imposed on an inspector or assistant inspector under
this Act; or
(d)
fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply in any respect with a lawful
request, requirement or direction made or given by an inspector or assistant
inspector.
(2) A person must not,
without reasonable excuse, fail to provide to an inspector or assistant
inspector acting in the execution or performance of a function under this Act
access to a mine, building, structure, plant, data or records, or any other
assistance which that person may lawfully and reasonably be required to
provide.
(3) A statement made
in response to a requirement made under this Act is not admissible in evidence
in a prosecution against the person for an offence, other than an offence
under this section, if the person making the statement objected to doing so at
the time he or she made the statement on the ground that it might tend to
incriminate that person.
(4) A person who
contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence.
[Heading inserted by No. 68 of 2004
s. 76.]
[Heading inserted by No. 68 of 2004
s. 76.]