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Government Act (WA) (CI) 1995;
manufacturers specifications means the documented installation or maintenance instructions produced by a product manufacturer;
Medical Officer means a Medical Practitioner registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in the medical profession;
Principal Environmental Health Officer means an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) appointed by the local government to the office of Principal Environmental Health Officer and includes an Acting Principal Environmental Health Officer;
public place includes every place to which the public ordinarily have access, whether by payment of a fee or not;
sanitary convenience includes urinals, water closets, earth-closets, privies, sinks, baths, wash troughs, apparatus for the treatment of sewage, ash-pits, ash-tubs, or other receptacle for the deposit of ashes, faecal matter, or refuse, and all similar conveniences;
Schedule means a Schedule to this local law;
sewage means any kind of sewage, nightsoil, faecal matter or urine, and any waste composed wholly or in part of liquid;
sewer includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word "drain" as defined in the Act applies, also water channels constructed of stone, brick, concrete, or any other material, including the property of the local government;
street includes any highway, any public bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not;
toilet means a water closet, earth closet, privy or urinal and includes a room or cubicle in which one or more of these is located;
vectors of disease means an arthropod or rodent that transmits, by biological or mechanical means, an infectious agent from a source or reservoir to a person, and includes fleas, bedbugs, crab lice, body lice and head lice;
WC is the abbreviation given for water closet;
Water means drinking water within the meaning of the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines as published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in 2004 and as amended from time to time that is available at www.nhmrc.gov.au and should be used as the contextual reference;; and
Window means a glass panel, roof light, glass brick, glass louvre, glazed sash, glazed door, or other device which transmits natural light directly from outside a building to the room concerned when in the closed position.
(2) Where in this local law, a duty or liability is imposed on an "owner or occupier", the duty or liability shall be deemed to be imposed jointly and severally on each of the owner or occupier.
(3) Where under this local law an act is required to be done or forbidden to be done in relation to any premises, the owner or occupier of those premises has, unless the contrary intention appears, the duty of causing to be done the