1562GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 27 June 2024

1562 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 27 June 2024 9.15 Storage of materials The occupier shall cause all material on the premises to be stored so as not to be offensive or injurious to health whether by inhalation or otherwise and so as to prevent the creation of a nuisance. 9.16 Directions An Authorised Officer may give to the occupier directions to prevent or diminish the offensiveness of a trade or to safeguard the public health. Division 3—Fat Rendering Establishments 9.17 Interpretation fat rendering establishments means a premises where edible fats including suet, dripping or premier jus are rendered down by any heat processing method; and occupier means the occupier of any premises on which the trade of fat rendering is carried on. 9.18 Ventilation The occupier shall provide and maintain— a hood which shall— (i) be of an approved design and construction; (ii) be situated so as to arrest all effluvia, odours and smoke from the process of fat rendering; and (iii) extend a minimum of 150 millimetres beyond the length of each appliance; and an exhaust ventilation system— (i) the point of discharge of which shall be at least 1 metre above the ridge of a pitched roof or 3 metres above a flat roof and shall not be located within 6 metres of an adjoining property or any fresh air intake; and (ii) which shall discharge in such manner and in such a position that no nuisance is created. 9.19 Covering of apparatus External parts of the fat rendering apparatus shall be constructed or covered with smooth, non- corrosive and impervious material, devoid of holes, cracks and crevices. 9.20 Rendering of walls The occupier shall cause each wall within a radius of 3 metres of the rendering apparatus or machinery to be rendered with a cement plaster with a steel float finish or other approved finish to a height of 2 metres, devoid of holes, cracks and crevices. Division 4—Laundries, Dry Cleaning Establishments and Dye Works 9.21 Interpretation dry cleaning establishment— means premises where clothes or other articles are cleaned by use of solvents without using water; but does not include premises in which perchlorethylene or arklone is used as dry-cleaning fluid in a machine operating on a full cycle and fully enclosed basis; dye works means a place where articles are commercially dyed, but does not include dye works in which provision is made for the discharge of all liquid waste therefrom into a public sewer; exempt laundromat means a premises in which— laundering is carried out by members of the public using, on payment of a fee, machines or equipment provided by the owners or occupiers of those establishments; laundering is not carried out by those owners or occupiers for or on behalf of other persons; and provision is made for the discharge of all liquid waste therefrom into a public sewer; laundromat means a public place with coin or card operated washing machines, spin dryers or dry-cleaning machines; and laundry means any place where articles are laundered by commercial grade machinery but does not include an exempt laundromat. 9.22 Receiving depot An owner or occupier of premises shall not use or permit the premises to be used as a receiving depot for a laundry, dry cleaning establishment or dye works except with the written permission of the local government, which may at any time by written notice withdraw such permission.