Western Australian Consolidated Acts

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MEAT INDUSTRY AUTHORITY ACT 1976 - SECT 12A

12A .         Minister to have access to information

        (1)         The Minister is entitled — 

            (a)         to have information in the possession of the Authority; 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 Authority to furnish information to the Minister;

            (b)         request the Authority to give the Minister access to information;

            (c)         for the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the staff and facilities of the Authority to obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.

        (3)         The Authority shall comply with a request under subsection (2) and make its 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 Authority.

        [Section 12A inserted by No. 32 of 1993 s. 19.]