Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) For the
proper conduct of the Minister’s public business, the Minister is
entitled to have information in the possession of the Authority or a
subsidiary and to have and retain copies of documents.
(2) For the purposes
of subsection (1) the Minister may —
(a)
request the chief executive officer or the board to furnish information to the
Minister;
(b)
request the chief executive officer or the board to give the Minister access
to information;
(c) for
the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the staff of the Authority or a
subsidiary to obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.
(3) The chief
executive officer or the board 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.
(3a) Where the chief
executive officer or the board furnishes or gives access to information to the
Minister, the Minister is to be advised whether or not in the opinion of the
chief executive officer or the board the public disclosure of the information
would adversely affect the commercial interests of the Authority or a
subsidiary or of any other person.
(4) In this
section —
document includes any data that is recorded or
stored mechanically, photographically, or electronically and any tape, disc or
other device or medium on which it is recorded or stored;
information means documents or other information
relating to the functions of the Authority being information, as so defined,
specified, or of a description specified, by the Minister.
[Section 25 amended by No. 60 of 1998
s. 27; No. 67 of 2004 s. 28.]
[Heading inserted by No. 60 of 1998
s. 18(1).]