1538GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 27 June 2024

1538 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 27 June 2024 district means— the district of the local government under the Local Government Act 1995; any area placed under the jurisdiction of the local government under section 22 of the Act; and 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 developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council; 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; habitable room means a room used for normal domestic activities, and— 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 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 Meekatharra; Medical Officer means the Medical Officer appointed by the local government under the Act and includes an Acting Medical Officer so appointed; 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; 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; Schedule means a Schedule to this local law; 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; and urinal may be— an individual stall or wall-hung urinal; each 600 millimetres length of a continuous urinal trough; or a toilet bowl used in place of a urinal. 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. 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.