Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Local laws may be made
in accordance with Part XIV in relation to all or any of the following matters
for the purpose of preventing or controlling the spread of an infectious
disease —
(1) for house-to-house
visitation, and inspection of the houses, the occupants thereof, and the
things therein, as also of the out-buildings, yards, drains, and sewers
connected with any house;
(2) for the cleansing
and disinfecting of houses, buildings, yards, drains, sewers, and things;
(3) for the
ventilating of houses and buildings, or of rooms therein;
(4) for the isolating,
disinfecting and disinfecting of persons, houses, buildings, places and
things;
(5) for the providing
of medical and nursing aid and accommodation for the sick;
(6) for the removal
and curative treatment of the sick;
(7) for the speedy
disposal of the dead;
(8) for the
destruction or amendment of insanitary houses, buildings, and things;
(9) for the
destruction of infected animals, or of animals or insects suspected or liable
to be infected, or to convey infection;
(10) generally for
promoting and enforcing all such cleansing, ventilating, disinfecting, and
other measures as are deemed necessary in order to prevent or check the spread
of infectious disease.
[Section 249 amended by No. 3 of 1912
s. 3; No. 71 of 1948 s. 10; No. 28 of 1984 s. 45;
No. 80 of 1987 s. 112; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]