Industrial Lands Development Authority Amendment Act 1990 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

INDUSTRIAL LANDS

DE LOPMENT AUTHORITY

ENDMENT ACT

No. 52 of 1990

AN ACT to amend the Industrial Lands Development Authority

Act 1966.

[Assented to 6 December 1990]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Industrial Lands Development

Authority Amendment Act 1990.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

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Amendment Act

Principal Act

3. In this Act the Industrial Lands Development Authority Act

1966* is referred to as the principal Act.

[*Reprinted as approved 12 March 1981 and amended by Acts

Nos. 63 of 1981, 57 and 98 of 1985 and 32 of 1987.]

Section 4 amended

4.    Section 4 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the

definition of "Minister".

Section 8B inserted

5.    After section 8A of the principal Act the following section is

inserted

Minister to have access to information

8B. (1) For parliamentary purposes or for the proper conduct of the public business of the Minister, the Minister is entitled to have information in the possession of the Development Authority and to have and retain copies of documents.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister may

(a)	request the Development Authority to furnish information to the Minister;
(b)	request the Development Authority to give the Minister access to information;
(c)	for the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the staff and facilities of the Development Authority to obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.

(3) The Development 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.

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(4) In this section

"document" includes any data that are recorded or stored mechanically, photographically, or electronically and any tape, disc or other device or medium on which those data are recorded or stored;

"information" means documents or other information relating to the functions of the Development Authority being information, as so defined, specified, or of a description specified, by the Minister;

"Parliamentary purposes" means the purpose of

(a)	answering a question asked in a House of Parliament; or
(b)	complying with a written law, or an order or resolution of a House of Parliament, that requires information to be furnished to a House of Parliament. ".

Section 14 amended

6. Section 14 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by

deleting "1990" and substituting the following-

" 1991 ".