4346GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 October 2016

4346 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 October 2016 dwelling house means a place of residence or house 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; Energy Safety WA means the Energy Safety division of the Department of Commerce; Environmental Health Officer means an Environmental Health Officer appointed by the local government under the Act and includes an acting or assistant Environmental Health Officer; 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; (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 65 degrees Celsius; local government means the Shire of Kondinin; Medical Officer means the Medical Officer appointed by the local government under the Act and includes an Acting Medical Officer so appointed; local planning scheme means the Shire of Kondinin Local Planning Scheme adopted by the local government from time to time and has approval so granted by the Minister for Planning and as defined pursuant to section 4, part 1 of the Planning and Development Act 2005; 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, including 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; townsite means all townsites within the district which are— (a) constituted under section 26(2) of the Land Administration Act 1997; or (b) referred to in section 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. PART 2—SANITATION Division 1—Sanitary conveniences 2.1 Interpretation In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires— festival includes a fair, function or event; organiser means a person— (a) to whom approval has been granted by the local government to conduct the festival; or (b) responsible for the conduct of the festival; public sanitary convenience means a sanitary convenience to which the public ordinarily have access, whether by payment of a fee or not; and