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) Defining
localities in the district within which the keeping of any swine or pigsty is
forbidden.
(1a) Prescribing areas
in which piggeries may be carried on, only if the premises in or upon which
they are carried on, are registered as required by section 191.
(2) Prohibiting the
keeping of animals on any premises so as to be a nuisance or injurious to
health.
(3) Regulating the
situation, construction, and cleansing of structures, stables, and other
buildings in which animals are kept.
(4) Regulating the
keeping of poultry, pigeons, and other birds upon any premises.
(5) The removal and
destruction of dead, dying or diseased animals found upon any street or land
under the control of the local government, or any land not securely fenced off
from such street or land.
(6) Compelling any
owner of a diseased animal to forthwith destroy same, and empowering any
officer of the local government, on default being made by such owner, to seize
and destroy such animal, and for that purpose to enter upon any premises.
(7) Preventing the
overcrowding of persons in houses and premises.
(8) Prohibiting
expectoration on any public place, or on any public vehicle, and for the
cleansing of public vehicles.
(9) Defining
localities in the district within which noxious or offensive trades,
businesses, or manufactures may be established or carried on and prohibiting
the establishing or carrying on of noxious or offensive trades, businesses, or
manufactures, elsewhere than in localities so defined.
(10) The registration
of and regulating offensive trades, businesses, or manufactures, and
prescribing fees for registration.
(11) Prescribing the
construction, drainage, ventilation, lighting, and cleanliness of premises
occupied for the purpose of any offensive trade.
(12) Defining
localities in the district within which no animal shall be slaughtered.
(13) The prevention of
nuisances.
[(14) deleted]
(15) For the
prevention of danger to the public from manufactories, or places for the
storage, keeping, or sale of inflammable materials.
(16) For the
disinfection of and the prevention of a nuisance, or injury or danger to
health from rags or other material used or stored in premises of a type
prescribed by regulation, or flock, bedding, or furniture manufactories.
(17) Prohibiting the
sale or storage for sale in any place of any second-hand furniture, bedding,
or clothing which is filthy or verminous, and prescribing the method of
cleansing or purifying the same, or requiring or authorising the destruction
thereof.
(18) Prohibiting any
person who is in a verminous condition from entering or remaining in any
public vehicle, lodging-house, public house or public place, but so that no
prosecution for a breach of any local law made under this paragraph shall be
instituted except by an authorised officer.
(19) The prevention of
nuisances or injury to health from the transport, deposit, use or storage as
manure, of nightsoil, urine, offal, blood, or other offensive matter.
(20) The destruction
of mosquitoes and Argentine ants and other insect pests as may by regulations
be prescribed from time to time.
(21) Specifying what
are toxic substances and what are hazardous substances, prescribing generally,
or in any class or case, or in any particular case, how they shall be branded
or labelled; and with respect to the prevention of nuisance or injury to
health from the transport, deposit, use, manufacture, sale or storage, of
substances so specified.
[Section 199, formerly section 161, amended: No. 3
of 1912 s. 2; No. 30 of 1932 s. 27; renumbered as section 199: No. 38 of 1933
s. 42; amended: No. 22 of 1948 s. 3; No. 25 of 1952 s. 6; No. 29 of 1955 s. 4;
No. 18 of 1964 s. 18; No. 24 of 1970 s. 12; No. 28 of 1984 s. 45; No. 59 of
1991 s. 5; No. 88 of 1994 s. 100; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 28 of 1996 s. 21;
No. 84 of 2004 s. 80; No. 43 of 2008 s. 147(6); No. 19 of 2016 s. 99.]