Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) No person shall
erect, rebuild, maintain, or use any house, or keep or use or suffer to be
kept or used any public place or private place without providing for the same
sanitary conveniences, and also bathroom and laundry and cooking facilities,
to the number prescribed, constructed and equipped in accordance with the
local laws of the local government.
[(2) deleted]
(3) If it appears to
the local government to be advisable that any house, public place, or private
place should be provided with an apparatus for the treatment of sewage, it may
cause written notice to be served on the owner of the house or place requiring
him within a time specified in the notice to provide and install such
apparatus for and in connection with such house or place, and such owner shall
comply with such notice, and shall observe in connection with the provision
and installation of the apparatus the provisions of section 107 and of
the relative local laws.
(4) A person who
neglects or refuses to comply with the requirements of a notice served on him
under subsection (3) commits an offence.
(4a) When a person
neglects or refuses to comply with the requirements of a notice served on him
under subsection (3), the local government may do the work required by
that notice to be done and provide the material or apparatus required to be
provided to carry out the requirements of the notice in respect of which
default has been made, and may recover from the person so in default the
expense incurred by it in so doing.
(5) Such expenses,
until paid, shall be and remain a charge upon the land, notwithstanding any
change that may take place in the ownership thereof.
[Section 99 inserted by No. 30 of 1932
s. 12; amended by No. 32 of 1937 s. 4; No. 21 of 1944
s. 4, No. 45 of 1954 s. 2; No. 49 of 1962 s. 2;
No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1); No. 80 of 1987 s. 15; No. 59
of 1991 s. 9; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]