Waterways Conservation Act 1976

associated land means land comprised within the boundaries of a management area as defined pursuant to section 10;

by‑law means a by‑law or, in relation to a local government, a local law, made under this Act;

CEO means the chief executive officer of the Department;

Department means the department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration of this Act;

development control area has the meaning given by the Swan and Canning Rivers Management Act 2006;

discharge, in relation to waste or any other matter, includes causing or permitting it to be, or failing to prevent it from being, emitted, discharged, deposited or allowed to escape on or into the waters or associated land;

former Board means the Swan River Conservation Board constituted pursuant to the Swan River Conservation Act 1958;

function means powers and duties, and includes rights, benefits and obligations;

honorary warden means a person appointed to that office pursuant to section 62;

industrial includes any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation;

inspector means a person appointed to that office pursuant to section 61, and where the context permits includes a person exercising the powers of an inspector pursuant to subsection (5) of that section;

management area means an area of the State declared to be a management area for the purposes of this Act pursuant to section 10;

management programme means a programme of operations prepared pursuant to section 35;

pollution means any direct or indirect alteration of the environment to its detriment or degradation, and includes any effluent, litter, refuse, sewage, or waste, or any other matter or thing, of whatever kind and in whatever form, that impairs or is likely to impair the environment;

public authority includes a Minister of the Crown acting in his official capacity, a State Government department, a State instrumentality or agency, and any other person or body, whether corporate or not, who or which, under the authority of any Act, administers or carries on for the benefit of the State, or any district or part of the State, a social service or public utility;

Riverpark has the meaning given by the Swan and Canning Rivers Management Act 2006;

section means section of this Act;

sewage means any and all waste substance, liquid or solid, which is associated with human habitation, or which contains or may be contaminated with human or animal excrement, offal or feculent matter;

standard includes standards specifying the components, form and temperature of any matter, and prohibiting, restricting or controlling the discharge of any matter not complying therewith;

waste includes any and all waste substance, liquid or solid or gaseous, rubbish, refuse, garbage and materials used or produced in or by any industrial process, mining or quarrying, agriculture, commerce or any other trade or industrial undertaking or activity, sewage, household waste, effluent and other matter which causes or is likely to cause pollution, and any matter or thing prescribed to be waste for the purposes of this Act;

waters means the rivers, inlets and estuaries to which this Act applies; and for the purposes of the exercise of the power to obtain information as to pollution and the discharge of waste includes the tidal waters or parts of the sea adjacent to any river, inlet or estuary; and

working plan means a plan prepared pursuant to section 35 for the purposes of a management programme.

[Section 3 amended: No. 97 of 1982 s. 2; No. 77 of 1987 s. 36; No. 73 of 1995 s. 166; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 52 of 2006 s. 6; No. 38 of 2007 s. 143.]