Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) In this
regulation —
flat means that portion of a building used or
intended, or adapted or designed for use as a separate tenement for
residential purposes in a building containing 2 or more such tenements, but
shall not include any building or place established wholly or partly by
contributions from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Commonwealth or the
consolidated revenue of the State and used for the purpose of housing aged
persons.
single bedroom flat means a flat which contains
only one room used or intended for use as a bedroom.
(2) Subject to
subregulations (5) and (7), the owner of any house shall provide therein
a laundry which —
(a) is
properly enclosed and roofed;
(b) has
a floor area in accordance with the requirements of the Uniform Building
By‑laws;
(c) is
not situated in a room in which food is prepared, stored, served or consumed;
and
(d) is
fitted with the fixtures and fittings specified in subregulation (3) or
subregulation (4), as the case requires.
(3) The laundry in a
house which is a “private dwelling” within the meaning of
by‑law 301 of the Uniform Building By‑laws shall be provided
with —
(a) 2
wash troughs connected to an adequate supply of water and each having a
capacity of not less than 36 litres and one copper; or
(b) a
mechanical washing machine and one wash trough having a capacity of not less
than 36 litres which wash trough shall be connected to an adequate supply
of cold water and also, if the washing machine is not fitted with an apparatus
for heating water, to an adequate hot water system.
(4) The laundry in a
flat, other than a single bedroom flat, shall be provided with the following
facilities —
(a) a
wash trough having a capacity of not less than 36 litres connected to an
adequate supply of cold water and to an adequate hot water system;
(b)
space in accordance with the Uniform Building By‑laws for a washing
machine, which space shall be provided with a power point connected to an
electricity supply; and
(c)
space for a drying cabinet, which space shall be provided with a power point
connected to an electricity supply.
(5) Notwithstanding
subregulation (2) the laundry of a single bedroom flat may be the
communal laundry provided in accordance with these regulations.
(6) For the purposes
of subregulations (3), (4) and (8), a hot water system is adequate if it
is capable of delivering water at a temperature of 75 degrees Celsius at a
rate of not less than 0.04 litre per second.
(7) Subject to
subregulation (8) the owner of a building of which a flat forms part
shall provide communal laundry facilities in accordance with the following
scale —
|
No. of bedrooms in |
No. of laundry units to be |
|
1 – 10 |
1 |
|
11 – 30 |
2 |
|
31 – 70 |
3 |
|
71 – 100 |
4 |
|
101 – 140 |
5 |
|
141 – 180 |
6 |
|
181 – 200 |
7 |
plus one additional
laundry unit for each 50 bedrooms in excess of 200.
(8) Where any flat
contains a laundry complying with the requirements of
subregulation (2)(a), (b) and (c) , which is provided
with —
(a) a
wash trough having a capacity of not less than 36 litres, connected to an
adequate supply of cold water and to an adequate hot water system;
(b) a
mechanical washing machine; and
(c) an
electrically operated drying cabinet,
the number of bedrooms
in that flat may be deducted from the number of bedrooms in the building when
applying the scale to assess the number of laundry units to be provided in the
communal facilities referred to in subregulation (7).
(9) For the purposes
of subregulation (7), a laundry unit means a group of facilities
consisting of —
(a) one
washing machine with a capacity of not less 4 kilograms weight of dry
clothing;
(b) one
wash trough of not less than, 36 litres capacity connected to both cold and
hot water; and
(c)
either a drying cabinet connected to an electricity supply or not less than 30
metres of clothes line,
and for which a hot
water system is provided that —
(d) is
capable of delivering 0.04 litre of water per second at a temperature of 75
degrees Celsius for each washing machine provided with the communal
facilities; and
(e) has
a delivery rate of not less than 0.3 litre per second to each washing machine.
[Regulation 5 amended: Gazette
21 Jun 1974 p. 2045‑6.]