Country Towns Sewerage Amendment By-laws (No. 2) 2007 (WA)

5 April 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1531

WA302*

Country Towns Sewerage Act 1948

Country Towns Sewerage Amendment

(No. 2) 2007

Made by the Minister under the Country Towns Sewerage Act 1948 section 102 and the Water Agencies (Powers) Act 1984 section 34.

1.            Citation

These by-laws are the Count'', Towns Sewerage Amendment
By-laws (No. 2) 2007.

2.            The by-laws amended

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

[* Reprint 4 as at 29 April 2005.

by-laws;

For amendments to 7 March 2007 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2005, Table 4, and
Gazette 30 June 2006.]

3.             By-law 36 amended

(1) By-law 36(3) is amended as follows:

(a) in paragraph (i) by deleting all of the paragraph after

"thereof" and inserting instead

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for any of the following purposes —

(i) ascertaining whether the quality, quantity, or rate of discharge of industrial waste complies with the

conditions of the permit and of the

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(ii) treatment apparatus referred to in
paragraph (j) or otherwise marking such

affixing an identification tag to any identification;

(iii)      removing an identification tag or mark referred to in subparagraph (ii);

(iv)     taking samples of industrial waste for analysis and otherwise;

(v)     inspecting the treatment apparatus;

(vi)     making any measurement or assessment of the volume of the industrial waste admitted into the Corporation's sewer;

(vii)     any other purpose set out in this by-law.

(b) after paragraph (i) by inserting -

"

(Ia) The occupier of the property shall -

(i) ensure, as far as practicable, that any

identification tag or mark that the
Corporation uses to identify the
treatment apparatus under
paragraph (i)(ii) is not removed or
defaced or otherwise damaged; and
as soon as practicable after the occupier
becomes aware that any such tag or
mark is removed or defaced or
otherwise damaged, notify the

Corporation of the removal or damage.

(c)	in paragraph (j) by deleting the comma after "by-law";
(d)	in paragraph (j) by deleting all of the paragraph after

"expense" and inserting instead -

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and at such intervals as may be considered necessary by the Corporation to ensure the efficient operation of such apparatus.

(e) after paragraph (j) by inserting -

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Oa) The occupier shall, after any cleansing or

maintenance of a treatment apparatus required
under paragraph (j) that is done on or after
1 July 2007-

(i) notify the Corporation in writing of the cleansing or maintenance within 7 days after the day on which it is done; and

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(ii) include in the notification the

identification information on or in the
tag or mark that the Corporation uses to
identify the apparatus under

paragraph (i)(ii).

(2) After by-law 36(3), the following sub-bylaw is inserted -

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(4) The Corporation may at any time, by notice in writing

given to the occupier of a property from which

industrial waste is permitted to be discharged -

(a)	vary or remove any condition of the permit imposed by the Corporation; or
(b)	impose a new condition on the permit.

4.            Transitional provision

By-law 36 of the Country Towns Sewerage By-laws 1952, as amended by these by-laws, applies, after the commencement of these by-laws, in relation to a permit to discharge industrial waste, whether the permit is granted before, on or after that commencement.

JOHN KOBELKE, Minister for Water Resources.