1748GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 22 March 2017

1748 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 22 March 2017 recreational campsite means a lodging house— (a) situated on a campsite principally used for— (i) recreational, sporting, religious, ethnic or educational pursuits; or (ii) conferences or conventions; and (b) where the period of occupancy of any lodger is not more than 14 consecutive days, and includes youth camps, youth education camps, church camps and riding schools but does not include a camping ground or a caravan park within the meaning of the Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Act 1995; register of lodgers means the register kept in accordance with Section 157 of the Act and this Part; resident means a person, other than a lodger, who resides in a lodging house; serviced apartment means a lodging house in which each sleeping apartment, or group of sleeping apartments in common occupancy, is provided with its own sanitary conveniences and may have its own cooking facilities; and short term hostel means a lodging house where the period of occupancy of any lodger is not more than 14 consecutive days and shall include youth hostels and backpacker hostels. (2) Where in this Part an act is required to be done or forbidden to be done in relation to any lodging house, the keeper of the lodging house 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. 8.1.2 Lodging house not to be kept unless registered A person shall not keep or cause, suffer or permit to be kept a lodging house unless— (a) the lodging house is constructed in accordance with the requirements of this Part; (b) the lodging house is registered by the local government under clause 8.1.4; (c) the name of the person keeping or proposing to keep the lodging house is entered in the register of keepers; and (d) when required by the local government either— (i) the keeper; or (ii) a manager who, with the written approval of an EHO, has been appointed by the keeper to have the care and management of the lodging house, resides or intends to reside continuously in the lodging house whenever there is one or more lodgers in the 8.1.3 Application for registration An application for registration of a lodging house shall be— (a) in the form prescribed in Schedule 4; (b) duly completed and signed by the proposed keeper; and (c) accompanied by— (i) the fee as fixed from time to time by the local government under Section 344C of the Act; and (ii) detailed plans and specifications of the lodging house. 8.1.4 Approval of application The local government may approve, with or without conditions, an application under clause 8.1.3 by issuing to the applicant a certificate in the form of Schedule 5. 8.1.5 Renewal of registration A person who keeps a lodging house, which is registered under this Part, shall— (a) during the month of June in each year apply to the local government for the renewal of the registration of the lodging house; and (b) pay the fee as fixed from time to time by the local government under Section 344C of the Act, at the time of making each application for renewal. 8.1.6 Notification upon sale or transfer If the owner of a lodging house sells or transfers or agrees to sell or transfer the lodging house to another person, he or she shall, within 14 days of the date of sale, transfer or agreement, give to the local government written notice in the form prescribed in Schedule 6 of the full name, address and occupation of the person to whom the lodging house has been, or is to be, sold or transferred. 8.1.7 Revocation of registration (1) Subject to subclause (3), the local government may, at any time, revoke the registration of a lodging house for any reason which, in the opinion of the local government, justifies the revocation. (2) Without limiting the generality of subclause (1), the local government may revoke a registration upon any one or more of the following grounds— (a) that the lodging house has not, to the satisfaction of the local government, been kept free from vectors of disease or in a clean, wholesome and sanitary condition;