Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Subject to the
express provisions of section 72, when any house in the district is without a
drain sufficient for effectual drainage, the local government may, by written
notice, require the owner or occupier of such house, within a reasonable time
therein specified, to make a drain or drains emptying into any sewer of the
local government which is not more than 91 m from the curtilage of such house;
or, if no such means of drainage are within that distance, then emptying into
such place within that distance, and not being under any house as the local
government directs.
(2) The local
government may require any such drain or drains to be of such material, and
size, and to be laid at such level and in such direction and with such fall as
appear to the local government to be necessary.
(3) If such notice is
not complied with, the local government may, after the expiration of the time
specified in the notice, do the work required, and recover the expenses
incurred by it in so doing from the owner.
[Section 80 inserted: No. 38 of 1933 s. 37 and 42;
amended: No. 94 of 1972 s. 4(1) (as amended: No. 83 of 1973 s. 4); No. 14 of
1996 s. 4.]