Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person shall not
keep a lodging-house or receive a lodger therein unless the house is
registered, nor unless his name as the keeper thereof is entered in the
register.
(2) But on the death
of a person so registered, the widow or widower of the person, a person who
was a de facto partner of the person immediately before the death of the
person, or any member of the person’s family may continue to keep such
house, for not more than 4 weeks after the person’s death, without being
registered.
[Section 147, formerly section 124, renumbered as
section 147: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 18 of 1964 s. 8; No. 28 of
2003 s. 74.]