Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person who in
erecting or setting up in a street, way, or other public place in a district,
a hoarding, fence, or scaffolding, injures or destroys a footpath or roadway
of the street, way, or other public place, or a kerb, water-table, or drain,
shall make good the injury or destruction to the satisfaction of the building
surveyor of the local government for that district.
(2) If the person who
owns or erects the hoarding, fence, or scaffold does not, to the satisfaction
of the building surveyor, make good and repair the footpath, roadway, kerb,
water-table, or drain, the local government may cause the repairs and
reinstatement to be done, and by written notice served on him require the
person to pay to the local government the expenses of doing so, together with
such further costs, charges, and expenses, if any, as are incurred by reason
of the omission, and may recover them from him in a court of competent
jurisdiction.
[Section 379 amended by No. 14 of 1996
s. 4 (as amended by No. 57 of 1997 s. 82); No. 11 of 2007
s. 12.]