Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Every house used
as a workshop or manufactory, or where persons are employed or intended to be
employed in any trade or business, and every house in which persons above 20
in number are gathered at one time, shall be provided with such sanitary
conveniences as, in the opinion of the local government, are suitable and
sufficient having regard to the number and sex of persons employed or gathered
therein.
(2) When it appears to
the local government that the provisions of this section are not complied
with, the local government shall, by written notice, require the owner of the
house, within a time therein specified, to make such alterations and additions
therein as may be required to give such sufficient and suitable accommodation.
(3) An owner who
neglects or refuses to comply with the requirements of a notice given to him
under subsection (2) commits an offence.
(4) When an owner
neglects or refuses to comply with the requirements of a notice given to him
under subsection (2), the local government may do the work required by that
notice to be done and recover from the owner so in default the expense
incurred by it in so doing.
[Section 101, formerly section 82, renumbered as
section 101: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 18 of 1964 s. 5; No. 113 of
1965 s. 8(1); No. 80 of 1987 s. 16; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]