1732GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 22 March 2017

1732 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 22 March 2017 EHO means an Environmental Health Officer appointed by the Executive Director Public Health under the Act; 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; 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 50 degrees Celsius; house is defined in the Act; large animal includes a pig, sheep, goat, deer, camel, cow, horse, lama, emu, ostrich or the like; local planning scheme means a current local planning scheme of the local government made under the Planning and Development Act 2005; Medical Officer means the Medical Officer appointed by the local government under the Act and includes an Acting Medical Officer so appointed; nuisance is defined under Section 182 of the Act; owner is defined in the Act; occupier is defined in the Act; 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; (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; vector 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; 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 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. The following local laws are repealed— (1) The adoption by the Moora Roads Board being the local health authority for the Watheroo Health District of the Model Bylaws Series “A” (1927—1938 version) adopted in its entirety, including modifications relating to nightsoil, on the 9 March 1940, and published in the Government Gazette on 3 May 1940 as amended from time to time; (2) The adoption by the Moora Roads Board for the Moora Health District of the Health Model By Laws on 11 November 1941 and published in the Government Gazette on 16 January 1942 as amended from time to time; and (3) The adoption by the Moora Local Board of health being the Local Authority for the Moora (Townsite) Health District of the Model Bylaws Series “A” (1927—1938 version including amendments) in its entirety on the 24 March 1944, and published in the Government Gazette on the 14 April 1944;