Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts Local laws may be made
in accordance with Part XIV for all or any of the following purposes:
(1) The registration
and inspection of lodging-houses.
(2)(a) Fixing and from
time to time varying the number of lodgers who may be received into a
lodging-house, and for the separation of the sexes therein.
(b)
Regulating the construction, cleanliness, lighting, ventilation, drainage, and
sanitation thereof.
(c)
Enforcing the destruction of vermin therein.
(d) The
cleansing, painting and disinfecting of the premises, and the paving of the
courts and court-yards thereof.
(e)
Enforcing the giving of notices, and the taking of precautions, in the case of
any infectious disease occurring in such house.
(f)
Enforcing the construction of approved facilities for escape in case of fire,
and the maintenance in approved places of fire extinguishing appliances
approved by the local government.
(g)
Enforcing the provision of proper and sufficient bathrooms and ablutionary
appliances, including plunge baths and heaters.
(h)
Requiring unsuitable bedsteads, bedding and bed-clothing to be removed from
the premises.
(i)
Generally for the good conduct of such houses.
(3) Prescribing fees
to be paid for the registration of lodging-houses.
(4) Prescribing the
form of register of lodgers to be kept by keepers of lodging-houses and the
form of report to be made to the local government under section 157(3).
[Section 158, formerly section 135, amended: No.
30 of 1932 s. 24; renumbered as section 158: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended:
No. 21 of 1944 s. 6; No. 18 of 1964 s. 15; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1); No. 2 of
1975 s. 4; No. 28 of 1984 s. 45; No. 59 of 1991 s. 23; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]