Health (Treatment of Sewage and Disposal of Effluent and Liquid Waste) Amendment Regulations 1998 (WA)

17 March 1998]	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	1417
HE303*

HEALTH ACT 1911
HEALTH (TREATMENT OF SEWAGE AND DISPOSAL OF EFFLUENT AND
LIQUID WASTE) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1998

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.
Citation

1.These regulations may be cited as the Health (Treatment of Sewage and Disposal of

Effluent and Liquid Waste) Amendment Regulations 1998.
Regulation 20 repealed and regulations 20 and 20A substituted

2.Regulation 20 of the Health (Treatment of Sewage and Disposal of Effluent and Liquid

Waste) Regulations 1974* is repealed and the following regulations are substituted —

Application
20. The regulations in this Division apply to all districts as if they were local

laws made under the Act.

Apparatus to be decommissioned in certain circumstances
20A. Where a premises is connected to a sewer, the owner of those premises

shall decommission any apparatus on the premises under regulation 21 —

(a)	if there is a material change in the use of the premises, not more than
60 days after the day on which the change in use occurred;
(b)	not more than 60 days after the day on which every person who was an
owner of the premises at the time the premises was connected to the sewer ceases to be an owner of the premises; or
(c)	if foundations for a building on the premises are to be built closer than

1.2 metres to the apparatus or a building is to be constructed above the apparatus, before work commences on building the foundations or before the building is constructed above the apparatus, as the case may be.

[* Reprinted as at 6 February 1985.

For amendments to 23 February 1998 see 1996 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 143-4 and Gazette I and 29 July 1997 and 5 September 19971

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.