Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Chief Health
Officer may make such orders as he may think fit for improving the condition
of, or for closing and prohibiting the further use of, any place for the
reception, utilisation, or deposit of sewage, refuse matter, or rubbish.
(2) Any person who
deposits any sewage, refuse matter, or rubbish in such place, contrary to such
order, commits an offence.
(3) Where the Chief
Health Officer makes an order prohibiting the further use of any such place,
he may also order the surface of such place to be covered with a layer of
clean earth, not less than 230 mm in depth.
(4) It shall be the
duty of the owner of such place, and of any person, local government, or other
authority by whom such place shall have been used for the deposit of sewage,
refuse matter, or rubbish, to carry out the order of the Chief Health Officer.
[Section 120, formerly section 101, amended: No.
17 of 1918 s. 12; renumbered as section 120: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended:
No. 94 of 1972 s. 4(1) (as amended: No. 93 of 1973 s. 4); No. 102 of 1973
s. 16; No. 28 of 1984 s. 45; No. 80 of 1987 s. 23; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 19
of 2016 s. 100.]