948GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 March 2021

948 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 March 2021 habitable room means a room used for normal domestic activities— (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 75 degrees Celsius; Medical Officer means the Medical Officer appointed by the local government under the Act and includes an Acting Medical Officer so appointed; 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; 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, also water channels constructed of stone, brick, concrete, or any other material, including the property of the local government; street includes any highway, 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 in 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 (Siphonaptera), bedbugs (Cimex lectularius), crab lice (Phthirius pubis), body lice (Pediculus humanus var. corporis) and head lice (Pediculus humanus var capitis); water means drinking water within the meaning of the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines as published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in 2004 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 from outside a building to the room concerned when in the closed position. (2) Where in this local law, 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 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. 1.3 Repeal This local law repeals the Shire of Broomehill-Tambellup Health Local Law 2008 as published in the Government Gazette on 20 March 2009. 1.4. Commencement This local law will come into operation 14 days after the date of its publication in the Government 1.5. Application PART 2—SANITATION Division 1—Sanitary Conveniences 2.1.1 Interpretation Energy Safety means the Building and Energy Division of the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety. festival includes a fair, function or event; organiser means a person— (a) to whom approval has been granted by the local government to conduct the festival; or (b) responsible for the conduct of the festival; public sanitary convenience means a sanitary convenience to which the public ordinarily have access, whether by payment of a fee or not; and