BUILDING ACT 1975 - SECT 273 Swimming pool fences for existing tourist resort complexes exempted

BUILDING ACT 1975 - SECT 273

273 Swimming pool fences for existing tourist resort complexes exempted

(1) This section applies to a tourist resort complex if, immediately before the commencement of this section—

(a) the land used for the tourist resort complex was, under section 4 and schedule 2 of the repealed Building Regulation 2003 , specified for section 13(3)(a) as in force immediately before the commencement; and

(b) the tourist resort complex is not required to construct fencing around a swimming pool on the land.

(2) A local law is of no effect if it requires the construction of fencing around the swimming pool on the land, provided the land is not land prescribed under a regulation as land to which this subsection is no longer to apply.

Note—

A pool for which a local law is of no effect under this section is subject to chapter 8.

(3) In this section—


"tourist resort complex" means a complex that operates as a single integrated facility providing all, or substantially all, the recreational and personal needs of guests resident at the complex and visitors at the complex.