Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1960 - SECT 247

247 .         Local laws may require smoke alarms

        (1)         Local laws may be made under the Local Government Act 1995 for the purpose of ensuring that, in prescribed circumstances, a prescribed building has any smoke alarm that is needed to satisfy prescribed requirements.

        (2)         The power given by subsection (1) includes the power to —

            (a)         impose on a person an obligation for the purpose of ensuring that any smoke alarm needed is fitted or maintained;

            (b)         in circumstances in which a person has failed to fit or maintain a smoke alarm in accordance with an obligation imposed under this section —

                  (i)         impose on another person an obligation to fit or maintain a smoke alarm;

                  (ii)         authorise a local government to do things reasonably necessary to ensure that a smoke alarm is fitted or maintained;

            (c)         give a person who fits or maintains a smoke alarm in accordance with an obligation imposed under paragraph (b)(i) or as authorised under paragraph (b)(ii) a right to recover the amount of the reasonably incurred costs as if it were for a debt due from a prescribed person.

        [Section 247 inserted by No. 34 of 2007 s. 3.]