Integrity (Lobbyists) Act 2016 (WA)

Western Australia Integrity (Lobbyists) Act 2016 Western Australia Integrity (Lobbyists) Act 2016 Contents Part 1 — Preliminary 1. Short title 2 2. Commencement 2 3. Terms used 2 4. Term used: lobbying activity 7 5. Purpose 8 6. Act binds Crown 9 7. Application 9 Part 2 — Registration Division 1 — Requirement to be registered 8. Lobbying activity by unregistered persons prohibited 10 9. Certain persons not required to register 10 Division 2 — Register 10. Register 11 11. Publication of information on register 12 Division 3 — Registration and listing 12. Who may be registered 12 13. Who may be listed as lobbyist 13 14. Certain persons disqualified from registration or listing 13 15. Commissioner makes decisions on registration and listing and related procedures 14 Part 3 — Code of conduct 16. Code of conduct 15 17. Registrants and lobbyists to comply with code of conduct 15 18. Publication of code of conduct 15 19. Application of Interpretation Act 1984 to code of conduct 15 Part 4 — Success fees 20. Term used: success fee 17 21. Agreements to receive success fees prohibited 17 22. Recovery of success fee 18 Part 5 — Miscellaneous Division 1 — Provision of information to Commissioner 23. Duty of confidentiality overridden 19 24. Offence to supply false or misleading information 19 Division 2 — General 25. Regulations 20 Part 6 — Transitional 26. Terms used 21 27. Persons on existing Register of Lobbyists 21 28. Existing contracts for success fee 22 Notes Compilation table 23 Defined terms Western Australia Integrity (Lobbyists) Act 2016 No. 15 of 2016 An Act to promote and enhance public confidence in the transparency, integrity and honesty of dealings between lobbyists and government representatives by — * providing for the registration of lobbyists; and * providing for the issuing of a code of conduct for registered lobbyists in their dealings with government; and * prohibiting registered lobbyists from agreeing to receive payments or other rewards that are dependent on the outcome of lobbying activities, and for related purposes. The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows: