Powers of and on entry
21U Powers of and on entry
For the purposes of the performance of the Independent Monitor’s functions, the Independent Monitor may at any time enter a place that is part of the Burswood Casino.
An entry may be made under subsection (1) with or without the consent of the person in charge or control of the place.
On entering a place under this section the Independent Monitor may do any 1 or more of the following —
inspect the place;
generally make any investigation or inquiry that is relevant to the performance of the Independent Monitor’s functions;
require a person at the place to give information or answer a question that, in the opinion of the Independent Monitor, is or is likely to be relevant to the performance of the Independent Monitor’s functions;
require a person at the place to produce a record or other thing in the possession or under the control of the person that, in the opinion of the Independent Monitor, is or is likely to be relevant to the performance of the Independent Monitor’s functions;
examine any record or thing, including a record containing confidential information, that, in the opinion of the Independent Monitor, is or is likely to be relevant to the performance of the Independent Monitor’s functions;
make copies of records or any part of them and, for that purpose, take away and retain any of those records or any part of them for any time that may be reasonably necessary;
require the person apparently in charge or control of the place to provide the Independent Monitor with assistance and facilities reasonably necessary to enable the Independent Monitor to exercise their powers under this section.
The powers under this section may be exercised by the Independent Monitor or by a member of the Independent Monitor’s staff.
The Independent Monitor or a member of the Independent Monitor’s staff (the monitor) may, when entering a place under this section, be accompanied by 1 or more persons to assist the monitor if they consider the assistance is necessary.
An assistant —
may do the things at the place and in the manner that the monitor reasonably requires to assist the monitor to exercise their powers under this section; but
must not do anything that the monitor does not have power to do.
Anything lawfully done by an assistant is taken to have been done by the monitor.
[Section 21U inserted: No. 32 of 2022 s. 6.]
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