Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) In these
by‑laws, unless the context otherwise requires —
Australian Standard means a document having that
title published by Standards Australia;
commercial purposes means the purposes for which
water is required in or about premises occupied or used for business,
professional or commercial purposes being purposes —
(a) in
which water is not used as an essential commodity for manufacturing or
processing; and
(b)
which are not otherwise specifically provided for in these by‑laws;
domestic purposes means the ordinary household
purposes for which water is required in or about a dwelling‑house or
flats, and includes the use of water for watering lawns and gardens
appurtenant to the dwelling‑house or flats of those growing or planted
in a street or road adjoining private land upon which the dwelling‑house
or flats is or are erected where those lawns and gardens are grown by or cared
for by the owner or any occupier of that land and are watered with water that
has passed into that land through a supply of water installed by the
Corporation on that land;
feeder means a watercourse, creek, stream or other
channel with permanent or intermittent flow whereby water is or can be
conveyed to a reservoir;
inspector means an inspector appointed by the
Corporation or the CEO for the purposes of these by‑laws;
licensed water supply plumber means a person who
holds a plumbing contractor’s licence under the
Water Services Licensing (Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing Standards)
Regulations 2000 that authorises the carrying out of water supply plumbing
work;
plumbing standards has the meaning given to that
term in regulation 3(1) of the
Water Services Licensing (Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing Standards)
Regulations 2000 ;
principal Act means the
Country Areas Water Supply Act 1947 , as amended;
private service includes all pipes and fittings
and all connections and apparatus whatsoever, whether used temporarily or
otherwise on any part of premises owned or occupied by any person and supplied
with water, whether by measure or otherwise, and also includes any pipes and
fittings which are the property of the owner or occupier of those premises and
which are used for conveying water from the mains of the Corporation, whether
or not that property is situated on those premises;
water supply plumbing work has the meaning given
to that term in regulation 3(1) in the
Water Services Licensing (Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing Standards)
Regulations 2000 ;
working day means a day of the week other than a
Saturday, Sunday, public holiday or public service holiday.
(2) In these
by‑laws, unless the context otherwise requires, words and expressions
have the same meanings as in the principal Act.
(3) In these
by‑laws, unless the context otherwise requires, cesspool , drain , house
, land , owner , piggery and public house have the same meanings as they have
in section 3 of the Health Act 1911 .
[By‑law 1A amended in Gazette
22 Dec 1964 p. 4067‑8; 15 Dec 1966
p. 3305; 30 Jun 1967 p. 1718; 24 Jul 1968
p. 2111; 8 Nov 1974 p. 5012; 17 Nov 1978
p. 4310‑1; 26 Jun 1981 p. 2318; 7 Sep 1984
p. 2873; 22 Nov 1985 p. 4413; 14 Jul 1987
p. 2649; 22 Dec 1989 p. 4627; 29 Dec 1995
p. 6306, 6308‑9 and 6310; 25 Aug 1998
p. 4735‑6; 16 Jun 2000 p. 2961;
29 May 2001 p. 2705‑6; 28 Jun 2004
p. 2390; 23 May 2008 p. 2006; 21 Apr 2011
p. 1472.]
[Heading inserted in Gazette 29 May 2001
p. 2707.]
[Heading deleted in Gazette 29 May 2001 p. 2708.]