Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1A) In this
regulation —
relevant thing means a prohibited drug, prohibited
plant or dangerous substance or a thing contaminated with a dangerous
substance.
(1) If under
section 27(1) or (4) of the Act a police officer is required to cause a
relevant thing to be destroyed, it shall be destroyed —
(a) by
fire or water or by such other means as will ensure the complete destruction
of that relevant thing; and
(b) in
the presence of 2 witnesses from 2 of the following classes of persons (but
not so that the 2 witnesses are persons from the classes referred to in
subparagraphs (i) and (iii)) —
(i)
a police officer who is a commissioned officer appointed
under the Police Act 1892 section 6;
(ii)
a justice of the peace or a registrar of the Magistrates
Court, other than a registrar of the Magistrates Court who is a police
officer;
(iii)
a police officer appointed under the Police Act 1892
section 7 nominated in writing by a police officer referred to in
subparagraph (i);
(iv)
an approved analyst or an approved botanist.
(2) Each witness
referred to in subregulation (1)(b) shall certify in writing that he has
witnessed the complete destruction of the relevant thing concerned and shall
sign that certificate.
[Regulation 7 amended in Gazette
9 Aug 1991 p. 4231; 2 Jul 1996 p. 3197;
29 Jan 1999 p. 273; 30 Mar 2010 p. 1266‑7;
6 May 2011 p. 1620.]