Bush Fire Brigades Amendment Local Law
366GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 16 February 2022
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366 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 16 February 2022 drinking water means drinking water as defined in the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council; dwelling house means a place of residence, whether temporary or permanent, containing at least one sleeping room and includes a room or outbuilding separate from, but ancillary to, the building in which the sleeping room is located; habitable room means a room used for normal domestic activities; and (a) includes a bedroom, living room, lounge room, music room, television room, kitchen, dining room, sewing room, study, play-room, family room and sun-room; but (b) excludes a bathroom, laundry, water closet, pantry, walk-in wardrobe, corridor, lobby, photographic dark room, clothes-drying room, and other spaces of a specialised nature occupied neither frequently nor for extended periods; hot water means water at a temperature of at least 65 degrees Celsius; infectious disease has the meaning given to it by— (a) section 3(1) of the Act; and (b) includes a notifiable infectious disease; land has the meaning given to it by the Planning and Development Act 2005; licence means a licence, permit, registration or approval issued by the local government under this local law; local government means the Shire of Menzies; local planning scheme has the meaning given to it by the Planning and Development Act 2005; lot has the meaning given to it by the Planning and Development Act 2005; morgue means a place for the temporary reception and keeping of the bodies of the dead awaiting burial or cremation; NCC means the latest edition of the National Construction Code published from time to time by, or on behalf of, the Australian Building Codes Board, as amended from time to time, but not including explanatory information published with that Code; nuisance includes the meaning given to it in section 182 of the Act; noise has the meaning given to it by section 3 of the Environmental Protection Act 1986; occupier has the meaning given to it in section 3 of the Act and includes a builder or contractor on land where the context permits; owner has the meaning given to it in section 3 of the Act; public place includes every place to which the public ordinarily have access, whether by payment of a fee or not; refuse means any waste material including bricks, lime, cement, concrete, rubble, stones, iron, timber, tiles, bags, plastics, ashes, vegetation, timber, wood or metal shavings, sawdust, and waste food, and includes any broken, used, derelict or discarded matter; sanitary convenience includes urinals, toilets, sinks, baths, wash troughs, apparatus for the treatment of sewage, or other receptacle for the deposit of faecal matter, or refuse, and all similar conveniences; Schedule means a Schedule to this local law; set fee means a fee— (a) as prescribed by legislation; or (b) in any other instance, as fixed by the local government from time to time under sections 6.16 to 6.19 of the Local Government Act 1995; sewage means any kind of sewage, faecal matter or urine, and any waste composed wholly or in part of liquid; sewer includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word “drain” as defined in the Act applies, also water channels constructed of stone, brick, concrete, or any other material, including the property of the local government; stormwater means any naturally occurring water that results from rainfall on or around a site, or water flowing onto the site; street includes any highway, and any public bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not; thoroughfare has the meaning given to it by section 1.4 of the Local Government Act 1995; toilet means a toilet bowl, or urinal and includes a room or cubicle in which one or more of these are located; townsite means the townsites of Menzies and Kookynie, which are— (a) constituted under section 26(2) of the Land Administration Act 1997; or (b) referred to in section 37 of Schedule 9.3 of the Local Government Act 1995; urinal may be— (a) an individual stall or wall hung urinal; (b) each 600 millimetres length of a continuous urinal trough; or (c) a toilet bowl used in place of a urinal;