City of Bayswater Health Local Law 2023
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6 Certificate of Sleeping Accommodation 7. Certificate of Sleeping Accommodation for a Lodging House with more than 20 Sleeping Apartments 8. Application for Licence of a Morgue 9. Certificate of Licence of a Morgue 10. Application for Consent to Establish an Offensive Trade 11. Application for Registration of Premises for Offensive Trade 12. Certificate of Registration of Premises for Offensive Trade
25 August 2023 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2917 Under the powers conferred under the Local Government Act 1995 and under all other powers enabling it, the Council of the City of Bayswater resolved on 25 July 2023 to make the City of Bayswater Health Local Law 2023. PART 1—PRELIMINARY 1.1 Citation These local laws may be cited as the City of Bayswater Health Local Laws 2023 1.2 Repeal The Health Local Laws 2001 adopted by the City of Bayswater and published in the Government Gazette on 10 December 2001, and amended from time to time, are repealed. 1.3 Interpretation (1) In these Local Laws, unless the context otherwise requires— Act means the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911 and includes subsidiary legislation made under the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911; adequate supply of water means a flow of water of not less than 4.56 litres per minute; “approved” means approved by the Principal Environmental Health Officer; AS means Australian Standard published by the Standards Association of Australia; Building Code 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; Chief Executive Officer means the Chief Executive Officer of the City of Bayswater and includes an Acting Chief Executive Officer; Council means the Council of the City of Bayswater; district means the district of the City of Bayswater and includes any area placed under the jurisdiction of the Council pursuant to section 22 of the Act; dwelling house means a place of residence 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; Environmental Health Officer means an Environmental Health Officer appointed by the local government under the Act; 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 sunroom; 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; house in these Local Laws shall be the same as the definition given in Part 1 Section 3 of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911; hot water means water at a temperature of at least 75 degrees Celsius; local government means the City of Bayswater; Medical Officer means the Medical Officer appointed by the Council under the Act and includes an Acting Medical Officer so appointed; Principal Environmental Health Officer means an Environmental Health Officer appointed by the local government to the officer of Principal Environmental Health Officer and includes Manager Environmental Health; public place includes every place to which the public ordinarily have access, whether by payment of a fee or not; sanitary convenience includes urinals, water-closets, latrines, sinks, baths, showers, wash troughs, apparatus for the treatment of sewage or other receptacle for the deposit of fecal matter and urine and all similar conveniences; sewage means any kind of sewage, faucal 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 a local government;