Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Amendment By-laws 2013 (WA)

14 November 2013 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5053

Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909

Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and

Drainage Amendment By-laws 2013

Made by the Minister under the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage,
and Drainage Act 1909 section 146 and the Water Agencies (Powers)
Act 1984 section 34(1).

1.             Citation

These by-laws are the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage
and Drainage Amendment By-laws 2013.

2.             Commencement

These by-laws come into operation as follows —

(a) by-laws 1 and 2 — on the day on which these by-laws

are published in the Gazette;

(b) the rest of the by-laws — on the day on which the Water

Services Act 2012 Part 2 comes into operation.

3.             By-laws amended

These by-laws amend the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage
and Drainage By-laws 1981.

4.             By-law 1.1 amended

(1)	In by-law 1.1 delete the definitions of:
approved AS/NZS Australian Standard backflow branch property sewer commercial type

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container
cross connection
discharge pipe
disconnector trap
domestic purposes
domestic type
educt vent
flat
garden purposes
indirectly connected
induct vent
inspector
licensed plumber
pipework
plumbing standards
private service
residential building
sanitary plumbing
spill level
trade waste
vent pipe
vent stack
vented
waste pipe

water heater

water seal or trap seal

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water service

yard gully

(2) In by-law 1.1 insert in alphabetical order:

Corporation means the Water Corporation established

by the Water Corporations Act 1995 section 4(1);

liquid waste means liquid wastes as defined in the

Health (Treatment of Sewage and Disposal of Effluent

and Liquid Waste) Regulations 1974 regulation 3;

underground water means all water that is below the
surface of the ground, whether or not flowing or in

defined channels;

(3)	In by-law 1.1 in the definition of works delete “section 3(1);”
and insert:
section 3(1).

5.             Parts 2.0 and 3.0 deleted

Delete Parts 2.0 and 3.0.

6.             By-law 5.1 amended

(1)	Delete by-law 5.1.1(a).
(2)	In by-law 5.1.3 delete “or Public Water Supply Area”.

7.             By-law 5.2 deleted

Delete by-law 5.2.

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8.             By-law 5.3 amended

In by-law 5.3.1 delete “works” and insert:

assets

9.             By-law 5.4 amended

(1)	In by-law 5.4.5 delete “domestic waste waters” and insert:
liquid waste
(2)	After by-law 5.4.7 insert:
5.4.8A	A person shall not place any chemical or other substance that is capable of polluting underground water, down a well during the course of its construction, redevelopment, maintenance or operation without prior approval of the CEO.

10.           Parts 6.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 15.0, 18.0, 27.0, 28.0 and 30.0 deleted

Delete Parts 6.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 15.0, 18.0, 27.0, 28.0
and 30.0.

11.           By-laws 31.1, 31.2 and 31.3 deleted

Delete by-laws 31.1, 31.2 and 31.3.

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12.           By-law 31.4 amended

(1)	In by-law 31.4.1 delete “the Corporation or”.
(2)	In by-law 31.4.2 delete “the Corporation,”.

13.           By-laws 31.5 and 31.6 deleted

Delete by-laws 31.5 and 31.6.

14.           Part 32.0 deleted

Delete Part 32.0.

15.           Schedules B, C and D deleted

Delete Schedules B, C and D.

D. T. REDMAN, Minister for Water.

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