6056GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 22 December 2017

6056 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 22 December 2017 keeper means a person whose name appears on the register of keepers, in respect of a lodging house, as the keeper of that lodging house; lodging house as defined in the Act and includes a recreational campsite, a serviced apartment and a short term hostel; manager means a person duly appointed by the keeper in accordance with this division to reside in, and have the care and management of, a lodging house; 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 camp or caravan within the meaning of the Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Act 1995; register of keepers means the register kept in accordance with Section 147 of the Act and this Part; 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; 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 backpackers hostels; and vectors of disease means an arthropod or rodent that transmits, by biological or mechanical means, an infectious agent from a source or reservoir to a person, and includes fleas, bedbugs, crab lice, body lice and head lice. (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) either— (i) the keeper; or (ii) a manager who, with the written approval by an Environmental Health Officer, 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 lodging house. 8.1.3 Application for registration An application for registration of a lodging house shall be— (a) in the form prescribed in Schedule 1; (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 8.1.4 by issuing to the applicant a certificate in the form prescribed in Schedule 2. 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.