Country Towns Sewerage Amendment By-laws 2004 (WA)

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Water Agencies (Powers) Act 1984 Country Towns Sewerage Act 1948

Country Towns Sewerage Amendment

By-laws 2004

Made by the Minister under section 34(1) of the Water Agencies
(Powers) Act 1984.

1.             Citation

These by-laws may be cited as the Country Towns Sewerage
Amendment By-laws 2004.

2.             Commencement

These by-laws come into operation at the same time as the Water
Services Coordination (Plumbers Licensing) Amendment
Regulations 2004 come into operation.

3.             The by-laws amended

The amendments in these by-laws are to the Country Towns
Sewerage By-laws 1952*.

[* Reprinted as at 2 January 2001.

For amendments to 31 May 2004 see Western Australian Legislation Information Tables for 2003, Table 4, p. 70.]

4. By-law 2 amended
By-law 2 is amended as follows:

(a) by inserting the following definition in the appropriate alphabetical position —

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“

“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.

”;

(b) by deleting the definition of “Licensed Plumber” and inserting instead —

“

“Licensed plumber” means a person who holds a plumbing contractor’s licence under the Water Services Licensing (Plumbers Licensing and

Plumbing Standards) Regulations 2000.

”;

(c) by deleting the definition of “Sanitary Plumbing” and inserting instead —

“

“Sanitary plumbing” means plumbing that is the result of sanitary plumbing work as defined in regulation 3(1) of the Water Services Licensing

(Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing Standards)

Regulations 2000.

”;

(d) by deleting the definition of “Water Supply Plumbing” and inserting instead —

“

“Water supply plumbing” means plumbing that is the result of water supply plumbing work as defined in regulation 3(1) of the Water Services Licensing

(Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing Standards)

Regulations 2000.

”;

(e) by deleting the definitions of “Book of forms”, “Certificate”, “Drainage Plumbing”, “Multi-entry

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plumbing certificate”, “Multi-entry work”, “Notice” and
“Notified work”.

5.             By-law 21A amended

By-law 21A is amended by deleting “Coordination” and inserting instead —

“ Licensing ”.

6.             By-law 29 amended

(1) By-law 29(1a) is repealed and the following sub-bylaw is
inserted instead —

“

(1) For the purposes of section 41A of the Act —

(a)	the notice required by that section to be given before the construction or alteration of a building shall be in the form set out in Schedule 1;
(b)	the fee for examining the plans required by that section to be submitted is set out in Schedule 2 Division 2, except that no fee is payable if a

like fee is payable under section 43A of the Country Areas Water Supply Act 1947; and

(c) the fee for making a connection (if any) to the item 1.

”.

(2) By-law 29(1b) is amended as follows:

(a) by deleting “dwelling who proposes to have constructed or altered any property sewer, or to have fixtures on that property connected to, or other work of a sanitary nature carried out for connection to,” and inserting instead —

“ building who proposes to connect the building to ”;

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(b)	by inserting after “system shall” — “ , if sub-bylaw (1) does not apply ”;
(c)	after paragraph (a) by deleting “and”;
(d)

after paragraph (b) by deleting the full stop and “

; and

(c) pay the fee set out in Schedule 2 item 1.

”.

(3) By-law 29(2) and (3) are repealed.

7.	By-law 29A inserted After by-law 29 the following by-law is inserted —
“

29A. Diagrams of drainage plumbing

(1)	A licensed plumber must, within 5 working days of completing major plumbing work that is the installation or alteration of drainage plumbing, give to the Corporation a diagram or diagrams of the completed work in the form required by the Corporation. Penalty: $1 000.
(2)	A licensed plumber must, within 5 working days of the end of a month in which the licensed plumber has completed minor plumbing work that is the alteration of drainage plumbing, give to the Corporation a diagram or diagrams of the completed work in the form required by the Corporation. Penalty: $500.
(3)	If the Corporation provides plan sheets for the preparation of diagrams under sub-bylaw (1) or (2), the

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appropriate fee set out in Schedule 2 Division 7 is payable in respect of the provision of those sheets.

(4) In this by-law —
“drainage plumbing” has the meaning given to that

term in section 3(1) of the Water Services
Licensing (Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing

Standards) Regulations 2000;

“major plumbing work” has the meaning given to

that term in section 3(1) of the Water Services Licensing (Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing Standards) Regulations 2000;

“minor plumbing work” has the meaning given to

that term in section 3(1) of the Water Services Licensing (Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing Standards) Regulations 2000.

”.

8.

By-law 35 amended “ ground, domestic swimming pool, ”.

9.             By-law 36 amended

By-law 36(3)(a)(vii) is amended by deleting “to the performed” and inserting instead —

“ to be performed ”.

10.           By-law 46 amended

By-law 46 is amended by deleting “the by-law” and inserting instead —

“ these by-laws and the plumbing standards ”.

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11.

By-law 48 amended “ and does not cause a nuisance ”.

12. Schedule 2 amended
Schedule 2 is amended as follows:

(a)

in Division 1 by deleting “[bl. 18F(6) and 29(2)(a)]” and “ [bl. 29(1)(c) and (1b)(c)] ”;

(b) by deleting items 1 and 3 and inserting instead —

“

1.        Fee in respect of a proposal to connect plumbing

to the sewer ……………………………………… 15.00

”;

(c)

in Division 2 by deleting “[bl. 29(1a)]” and inserting “ [bl. 29(1)(b)] ”;

(d) by deleting Division 5.

13.           Various provisions repealed

Each provision or definition listed in the Table to this by-law is repealed.

Table

bl. 8A	bl. 42
bl. 18A	bl. 43
bl. 18B	bl. 44
bl. 18C	bl. 45
bl. 18D	bl. 89
bl. 18E	bl. 90
bl. 18F	bl. 91

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bl. 18G	bl. 92
bl. 18H	bl. 93
bl. 18I	bl. 94
bl. 19	bl. 176
bl. 40

J. EDWARDS, Minister for the Environment.