Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) For the purposes
of deciding a compensation application, an assessor may do any or all of the
following, either on the application of an interested person or on the
assessor’s own initiative —
(a)
amend the application;
(b) give
written notice of the application and of any amendment to it to an interested
person;
(c) seek
and receive any information or evidence that the assessor thinks necessary;
(d) make
any inquiries and investigate any matters that the assessor thinks necessary;
(e)
request the applicant to provide the assessor with information in relation to
the application;
(f)
defer deciding the application in order to obtain more information or until
information requested under paragraph (c), (d) or (e) is provided.
(2) For the purposes
of deciding a compensation application, an assessor may give a person a
written notice that requires the person to do any or all of the following
—
(a) to
give the assessor, within the time specified in the notice, the relevant
information described generally or specifically in the notice;
(b) to
appear before the assessor at a time and place specified in the notice to give
relevant evidence to the assessor;
(c) to
produce to the assessor, within the time specified in the notice, any relevant
record that is described generally or specifically in the notice and that is
in the person’s possession or control.
(3) The powers in
subsection (1) and (2) may be exercised whether or not a hearing of the
compensation application is to be conducted.
(4) An assessor to
whom a record is produced may inspect and make a copy of the record and for
those purposes may keep the record for a reasonable time.
(5) A person who is
given a notice under subsection (2) and who, without a reasonable excuse, does
not comply with it commits an offence.
Penalty: $5 000.