Shire of Narrogin Health Local Law 2022
2502GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 April 2022
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2502 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 April 2022 (c) includes a person appointed by the local government as an Environmental Health Officer; bed means a piece of furniture on which to sleep; bedding includes beds, mattresses, pillows and bed heads as well as bed linen; bed linen includes sheets, blankets, pillow cases, quilts and doona covers, and mattress covers; builder means the holder of a building permit issued in respect of building works on a building site or a person in control of a building site; building permit means a permit granted under section 20 of the Building Act 2011; building site means any lot for which a building permit is current; 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 the district of the local government and includes any area placed under the jurisdiction of the local government pursuant to section 22 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, whether temporary or permanent, 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 (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; but (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; infectious disease has the meaning given to it by— (a) section 3(1) of the Act; and (b) includes a notifiable infectious disease; land has the meaning given to it by the Planning and Development Act 2005; licence means a licence, permit, registration or approval issued by the local government under this local law; local government means the Shire of Narrogin; local planning scheme has the meaning given to it by the Planning and Development Act 2005; lot has the meaning given to it by the Planning and Development Act 2005; morgue means a place for the temporary reception and keeping of the bodies of the dead awaiting burial or cremation; NCC means the latest edition of the National Construction Code 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; nuisance includes the meaning given to it in section 182 of the Act; noise has the meaning given to it by section 3 of the Environmental Protection Act 1986; occupier has the meaning given to it in section 3 of the Act and includes a builder or contractor on land where the context permits; owner has the meaning given to it in section 3 of the Act; public place includes every place to which the public ordinarily have access, whether by payment of a fee or not; refuse means any waste material including bricks, lime, cement, concrete, rubble, stones, iron, timber, tiles, bags, plastics, ashes, vegetation, timber, wood or metal shavings, sawdust, and waste food, and includes any broken, used, derelict or discarded matter; 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; set fee means a fee— (a) as prescribed by legislation; or (b) in any other instance, as fixed by the local government from time to time under sections 6.16 to 6.19 of the Local Government Act 1995; 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;