5772GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1 December 2017

5772 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1 December 2017 district means— (a) the district of the local government under the Local Government Act 1995; and (b) any area placed under the jurisdiction of the local government under section 22 of the Act; dwelling house means a place of residence containing at least 1 sleeping room and includes a room or outbuilding separate from but ancillary to the building in which the sleeping room is located; EHO means an Environmental Health Officer appointed by the local government under the Public Health Act 2016 and includes any acting or Assistant Environmental Health Officer so appointed; Energy Safety means the Energy Safety division of the Department of Commerce; 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 or the like; and (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; local government means the Shire of Quairading; local planning scheme has the meaning given to it by the Planning and Development Act 2005; manufacturer’s specifications means the documented installation and/or maintenance instructions produced by a product manufacturer; Medical Officer means the Medical Officer appointed by the local government under the Act and includes an Acting Medical Officer so appointed; nuisance has the meaning given to it in section 182 of the Health Act 1911; premises means a house or building, together with its land and all improvements to the land; 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, earth closets, privies, sinks, baths, wash troughs, apparatus for the treatment of sewage, ash pits, ash tubs, or other receptacle for the deposit of ashes, faecal matter or refuse and all similar conveniences; Schedule means a Schedule to this local law; sewage means any kind of sewage, nightsoil, 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, including water channels constructed of stone, brick, concrete or any other material, including the property of the local government; 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, earth closet, privy or urinal and includes a room or cubicle in which one or more of these is located; townsite means all townsites within the district which are— (a) constituted under section 26(2) of the Land Administration Act 1997; or (b) referred to in clause 37 of Schedule 9.3 of the Local Government Act 1995; vectors of disease includes fleas, flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, lice and any other insect prescribed by the local government; water means drinking water within the meaning of the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines as published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in 2011 and as amended 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 into a building. (2) Where in this local law, a duty or liability is imposed on an owner or occupier, the duty or liability shall be taken to be imposed jointly and severally on each of the owner or occupier. (3) Where under this local law, 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. PART 2—SANITATION Division 1—Sanitary conveniences 2.1 Interpretation festival includes a fair, function or event;