Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The keeper of a
lodging-house shall keep a register of lodgers in the form prescribed, and
shall enter or cause to be entered therein the name and previous address of
every lodger for the time being in the lodging-house and the date of the
commencement of his lodging therein, and the register shall be signed by the
lodger.
(2) The register of
lodgers shall be kept in the lodging-house, and shall be open to inspection at
any time on demand by any member of the police force or authorised officer.
(3) The keeper of a
lodging-house shall from time to time, if required by the local government,
report to the local government in the prescribed form the name of every person
who resorted to the lodging-house during the preceding day or night.
(4) Any keeper of a
lodging-house who —
(a)
neglects or fails to keep a register of lodgers as provided by this section;
or
(b)
neglects or fails to enter or cause to be entered in the register of lodgers
the particulars required by this section to be entered therein; or
(c)
makes or causes to be made, or retains, in the register of lodgers any false
or misleading entry in respect of any of the particulars required to be
entered therein; or
(d)
refuses or neglects to produce the register of lodgers when required so to do
under subsection (2),
commits an offence.
[Section 157 inserted: No. 18 of 1964 s. 14;
amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1); No. 24 of 1970 s. 12; No. 80 of 1987 s. 37;
No. 59 of 1991 s. 5; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 19 of 2016 s. 99.]