970GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 March 2021

970 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 March 2021 (b) maintain in a clean condition and in good working order— (i) all fixtures and fittings; and (ii) windows, doors and furniture; (c) ensure that the internal walls of each bathroom and toilet have a smooth impervious washable surface; (d) whenever there are one or more lodgers in a lodging house, ensure that the laundry floor is cleaned daily; (e) ensure that— (i) all bed linen, towels, and house linen in use is washed at least once a week; (ii) within a reasonable time of a bed having been vacated by a lodger or resident, the bed linen is removed and washed; (iii) a person does not occupy a bed, which has been used by another person unless the bed has been provided with clean bed linen; (iv) all beds, bedheads, blankets, rugs, covers, bed linen, towels and house linen are kept clean, in good repair and free from vectors of disease; (v) when any vectors of disease are found in a bed, furniture, room or sleeping apartment, immediate effective action is taken to eradicate the vectors of disease; and (vi) a room, which is not free from vectors of disease, is not used as a sleeping apartment; (f) when so directed by an EHO, ensure that— (i) a room, together with it contents, and any other part of the lodging house, is cleaned and disinfected; and (ii) a bed or other article of furniture is removed from the lodging house and properly disposed of; (g) ensure that the yard is kept clean at all times; (h) provide all bedrooms, passages, common areas, toilets, bathrooms and laundries with adequate lighting; and (i) comply with any direction, whether orally or in writing, given by an EHO. 8.3.9 Responsibilities of Lodgers and Residents A lodger or resident shall not— (a) use any room available to lodgers— (i) as a shop, store or factory; or (ii) for manufacturing or trading services; (b) keep or store in or on the lodging house any goods or materials which are inflammable or offensive; (c) use a bath or hand wash basin other than for ablutionary purposes; (d) use a bathroom facility or fixture for laundry purposes; (e) use a sink installed in a kitchen or scullery for any purpose other than the washing and cleaning of cooking and eating utensils, other kitchenware and culinary purposes; (f) deposit rubbish or waste food other than into a proper rubbish receptacle; (g) in a kitchen or other place where food is kept— (i) wash or permit the washing of clothing or bedding; or (ii) keep or permit to be kept any soiled clothing or bedding; (h) subject to clause 8.3.10— (i) keep, store, prepare or cook food in any sleeping apartment; or (ii) unless sick or invalid and unable to leave a sleeping apartment for that reason, use a sleeping apartment for dining purposes; (i) place or keep, in any part of a lodging house, any luggage, clothing, bedding or furniture, that is infested with vectors of disease; (j) store or keep items other than personal effects— (i) in any kitchen, living or sleeping apartment so as to prevent the cleaning of the floors, walls, fittings or fixtures; or (ii) in a sleeping apartment so as to decrease the air space to less than the minimum required by this Part; (k) obstruct or prevent the keeper or manager from inspecting or examining the room or rooms occupied by the lodger or resident; and (l) fix any fastener or change any lock to a door or room without the written approval of the keeper. 8.3.10 Approval for storage of food (1) An EHO may— (a) upon written application from a keeper, approve the storage of food within a refrigerator or sealed container in a sleeping apartment; and