Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The local government
may, and, if required by the Executive Director, Public Health, shall cause to
be drained, cleansed, covered, or filled up all ponds, pools, open ditches,
sewers, drains, and places containing or used for the collection of any
drainage, filth, water, matter, or thing of an offensive nature, or likely to
be prejudicial to health, by making and serving an order upon the person
causing any such nuisance, or upon the overseer, owner, or occupier of any
premises whereon the same exists, requiring him within a time to be specified
in such order to drain, cleanse, cover, or fill up any such pond, pool, ditch,
sewer, drain, or place, or to construct a proper sewer or drain for the
discharge thereof, as the case may require.
[Section 87 amended by No. 28 of 1984
s. 45; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]