BUILDING REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 53

BUILDING REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 53

53 .         Inspection of barrier to private swimming pool

        (1)         The local government for the district in which a private swimming pool containing water that is more than 300 mm deep is located must arrange for an authorised person to inspect the barrier to the private swimming pool at intervals of no more than 4 years for the purpose of monitoring whether the provisions in regulations 50 and  52 are being complied with.

        (2)         A local government may, for a financial year, fix the charge to be imposed on each owner or occupier of land on which there is a private swimming pool containing water that is more than 300 mm deep, to meet the estimated cost in that financial year of carrying out the inspections mentioned in subregulation  (1), but the charge fixed —

            (a)         must not exceed the estimated average cost to the local government of carrying out inspections in that year; and

            (b)         must not exceed $58.45.

        [Regulation 53 amended: Gazette 15 Jun 2012 p. 2515; 27 Jun 2014 p. 2309; 23 Jun 2015 p. 2162; 15 Apr 2016 p. 1171; 22 Dec 2017 p. 5971.]