Western Australian Current Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 73

73 .         Notification of certain matters relating to registrable activity or premises

        (1)         A person who carries on, or who carried on, a registrable activity that is registered in respect of any premises under this Division must give written notification, in the approved form, to the appropriate enforcement agency of any of these occurrences —

            (a)         the registrable activity ceases to be carried on at those premises;

            (b)         the person ceases to carry on the registrable activity at those premises;

            (c)         approval of any proposed alteration of those premises is sought from a public authority or other person or body.

        (2)         A person must give the notification required under subsection (1) within 5 working days after the relevant occurrence takes place.

        Penalty for an offence under this subsection: a fine of $10 000.

        (3)         A person who carries on a registrable activity that is registered in respect of any premises under this Division must not make any change to the registrable activity carried on at those premises that is likely to affect the nature or extent of the public health risk from that activity unless —

            (a)         the person has given written notification to the appropriate enforcement agency of the proposed change to the registrable activity; and

            (b)         that change has been approved by the agency.

        Penalty for an offence under this subsection: a fine of $10 000.