2918GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 25 August 2023

2918 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 25 August 2023 street includes any highway, and any public bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not; toilet means a water closet, latrine or urinal and includes a room or cubicle in which one or more of these is located; water means drinking water within the meaning of the Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality in Australia—1996, as published by the National Health and Medical Research Council and amended and endorsed by the Minister from time to time; and window means a glass panel, roof light, glass brick, glass louvre, glazed sash, glazed door, or other device which transmits natural light directly from outside a building to the room concerned when in the closed position. (2) Where in these Local Laws, a duty or liability is imposed on an “owner or occupier”, the duty or liability shall be deemed to be imposed jointly and severally on each of the “owner or occupier”. (3) Where under these Local Laws an act is required to be done or forbidden to be done in relation to any premises, the owner or occupier of those premises has, unless the contrary intention appears, the duty of causing to be done the act so required to be done, or of preventing from being done the act so forbidden to be done, as the case may be. (4) These Local Laws shall be construed subject to the limits of the power of the Council of the City of Bayswater and so as not to exceed that power to the intent that where any provision of these Local Laws, but for this clause, would be construed as being in excess of that power, it shall nevertheless be valid to the extent to which it is not in excess of that power. (5) Save where defined herein, where words and phrases used in these Local Laws are defined or used in the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911, those words and phrases have the same meaning unless the context otherwise requires. 1.4 Application This local law applied to the district. 1.5 Commencement This local law comes into operation 14 days after the date on which it is published in the Government Gazette. PART 2—SANITATION Division 1—Sanitary Conveniences 2.1 Interpretation “public sanitary convenience” means a sanitary convenience to which the public ordinarily have access, whether by payment of a fee or not; and “temporary sanitary convenience” means a sanitary convenience, temporarily placed for use by- patrons in conjunction with a festival; or employees at construction sites or the like. 2.2 Dwelling House (1) A person shall not use or occupy, or permit to be used or occupied, a dwelling house unless it has at least one toilet. (2) A room in which a toilet is located shall have lighting in accordance with the requirements of the Building Code. 2.3 Premises other than a Dwelling House (1) The owner of premises other than a dwelling house shall not use or occupy, or permit to be used or occupied, premises other than a dwelling house unless— (a) the premises have sanitary conveniences in accordance with the Building Code and this Part; (b) the toilets required by these local laws are situated within a reasonable distance and are easily accessible to the persons for whom they are provided; and (c) the premises have handbasins— (i) in accordance with the Building Code; (ii) for the use of persons employed or engaged on the premises; (iii) provided with an adequate supply of water supplied by taps located over each basin; (iv) separate from any trough, sink or basin used in connection with any process carried out on the premises; and (v) situated within a reasonable distance of the sanitary conveniences and easily accessible to the person for whom they are provided. (2) The occupier of premises other than a dwelling house shall ensure that - (a) clean toilet paper is available at all times in each cubicle; (b) a sanitary napkin disposal facility is provided in each toilet set aside for the use of females; and (c) each handbasin is provided with— (i) an adequate supply of soap or other hand cleaning substances; and (ii) hand drying facilities, situated adjacent to and visible from the hand basin.