Health Local Law 2018
2742GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 31 July 2018
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2742 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 31 July 2018 Building Code means the latest edition of the Building Code of Australia published from time to time by or on behalf of the Australian Building Codes Board, as amended from time to time, but not including explanatory information published with that Code; Chief Executive Officer means the Chief Executive Officer of the local government and includes an Acting Chief Executive Officer; Chief Health Officer means a person appointed to this position under the provisions of the Public Health Act 2016; Council means the Council of the local government; district means— (a) the district of the local government under the Local Government Act 1995; (b) any area placed under the jurisdiction of the local government under section 22 of the Act; and (c) any river, or other water deemed to be within the district of the local government under section 25 of the Act; drinking water means drinking water as defined in the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines; dwelling house means a place of residence containing at least one sleeping room and includes a room or outbuilding separate from, but ancillary to, the building in which the sleeping room is located; Environmental Health Officer means a person appointed to this position under the provisions of the Public Health Act 2016; food premises means any premises or vehicle used by a food business as defined by section 10 of the Food Act 2008; 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 or the like; but (b) excludes a bathroom, laundry, toilet, 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 65 degrees Celsius; local government means the Shire of Mt Marshall; morgue means a place for the temporary reception and keeping of the bodies of the dead awaiting burial or cremation; nuisance has the meaning given to it in section 182 of the Act; public place includes every place to which the public ordinarily have access, whether by payment of a fee or not; public vehicle includes a coach, cab, omnibus, motor car, wagon, or other vehicle carrying passengers for hire, and includes a tramcar and railway carriage; sanitary convenience includes urinals, toilets, sinks, baths, wash troughs, apparatus for the treatment of sewage, or other receptacle for the deposit of faecal matter, or refuse, and all similar conveniences; sewage means any kind of sewage, 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, and any public bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not; toilet means a toilet bowl or urinal and includes a room or cubicle in which one or more of these are located; townsite means the townsites within the district which are constituted under section 26(2) of the Land Administration Act 1997 or referred to in clause 37 of the Schedule 9.3 of the Local Government Act 1995; urinal may be— (a) an individual stall or wall-hung urinal; or (b) each 600 mm length of a continuous urinal trough; or (c) a toilet bowl used in place of a urinal; vectors of disease includes fleas, flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, lice and any other insect prescribed by the local government; 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; 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.