Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts No person shall
convert into or adapt or use as a dwelling any building not originally
constructed or erected as a dwelling-house, and no person shall let, or lease,
or sublet, or sublease, or otherwise permit, whether for any consideration or
gratuitously, the use of, the building as a dwelling, without having first
obtained the consent of the local government of the district in which the
building is situated, and complied (in case a conditional consent is given)
with such conditions as the local government has seen fit to impose.
[Section 144 inserted as section 122a: No. 17 of
1918 s. 17; renumbered as section 144: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 21
of 1957 s. 7; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]