Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts Any local government
may, and, when so required by the Chief Health Officer, shall, by order
addressed to the owner of any land which has been excavated for brickmaking,
quarrying, mining, or other purposes, whether before or after the commencement
of this Act, direct such owner to have any excavation so made securely fenced
round to the satisfaction of such local government; and may further direct
such owner or the occupier to take such measures as are in the opinion of the
local government necessary, and as are specified in such order for preventing
any noxious or offensive drainage or other matter from flowing or being thrown
into any such excavation.
[Section 90, formerly section 70, renumbered as
section 90: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 28 of 1984 s. 45; No. 14 of
1996 s. 4; No. 19 of 2016 s. 100.]