5142GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 November 2016

5142 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 November 2016 lodger means a person who obtains, for hire or reward, board or lodging in a lodging house; lodging house includes a recreational campsite, a serviced apartment, a short term hostel and any premises used for transient workforce accommodation; lodging house 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 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 includes a youth hostel or a backpacker hostel; and 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 the act to be done, or of preventing the act so forbidden from being done, as the case may be. 8.2 Lodging house not to be kept unless registered A person shall not keep or cause or allow 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 8.4; (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 lodging house 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 lodging house. 8.3 Application for registration An application for registration of a lodging house shall be— (a) in the form approved by the local government from time to time; (b) duly completed and signed by the proposed keeper; and (c) accompanied by— (i) the approved 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. 8.4 Approval of application The local government may approve, with or without conditions, an application by issuing to the applicant a certificate of registration in the form approved by the local government from time to time. 8.5 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 in the form approved by the local government from time to time; and (b) pay the approved 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. 8.6 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, in the form approved by the local government from time to time, written notice of the full name, address and occupation of the person to whom the lodging house has been, or is to be, sold or transferred.