Source: https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/~/view/act/1992/49/whole
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Current version for 7 July 2017 to date (accessed 24 October 2017 at 06:03).
30D Director-General may enter into agreements for purposes of Part
An Act to require access to private swimming pools to be effectively restricted; to repeal the Swimming Pools Act 1990; and for other purposes.
(b) the Western Division within the meaning of the Crown Lands Act 1989, or
Director-General means:
(a) the Chief Executive of the Division of Local Government within the Department of Premier and Cabinet, or
(b) if there is no such position within that Department, the Director-General of that Department.
(b) in relation to premises that are situated within the Western Division within the meaning of the Crown Lands Act 1989—the Western Lands Commissioner, or
(5) A certificate of compliance in respect of a swimming pool is to be issued to the owner of the premises on which the pool is situated in a form approved by the Director-General.
(7) A local authority or accredited certifier that issues a certificate of compliance in respect of a swimming pool must ensure that details of the certificate are entered on the Register, by providing the details to the Director-General in a form approved by the Director-General.
(b) with the approval of the Director-General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet or other officer of the Department designated by the Director-General—any other persons,
(1) There is to be a Register of Swimming Pools.
(2) The Director-General is responsible for the keeping and administration of the Register.
(3) The regulations may make provision for the manner and form in which the Register is to be kept, the information that is to be entered on the Register, the fees (if any) payable for entering information on the Register and any other matter concerning the keeping and administration of the Register.
(1) The owner of the premises on which a swimming pool is situated must ensure that any information prescribed by the regulations in relation to the swimming pool (the registration information) is entered on the Register.
(2) A person complies with subsection (1) in respect of a swimming pool, if the person:
(a) provides to the Director-General, in a form approved by the Director-General, the registration information in relation to the swimming pool, or
(b) provides to a local authority, in a form approved by the local authority, the registration information in relation to the swimming pool and pays to the local authority any fee required by the local authority (being no more than the maximum fee (if any) prescribed by the regulations).
(3) A local authority is required to enter on the Register, in a form approved by the Director-General, any information provided to it under subsection (2) (b).
(4) A swimming pool is registered when the registration information about the swimming pool is entered on the Register.
(1) The Director-General may issue a document certifying as to whether or not a particular swimming pool is or was registered at a particular time and certifying as to any registration information for the swimming pool entered on the Register at a particular time (including whether a certificate of compliance was valid with respect to a swimming pool at a particular time).
(2) A document issued under this section is evidence of the matters certified.
(1) The Director-General may enter into agreements and other arrangements with a person or body in respect of the exercise of functions of the Director-General under this Part by the person or body on behalf of the Director-General.
(2) An agreement or other arrangement may make provision for the ownership of information entered on the Register to be vested in the Director-General.
(1) An authorised person is entitled to access information contained in the Register. The Director-General is required to provide that access free of charge.
(2) The regulations may provide for the ways in which access can or must be given to authorised persons.
(3) The regulations may require the Director-General to keep specified records with respect to the access given to the Register under this section and may provide for the persons who are entitled to have access to those records.
(5) The Minister and any person acting with the Minister’s authority is entitled to full and free access to information contained in the Register at all times.
(6) The following persons are authorised persons for the purposes of this section:
(b) a person who is a member of a class of persons prescribed by the regulations as authorised persons for the purposes of this section.
(7) The regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which other persons may access information contained in the Register.
(1) In the event of an inconsistency between:
(a) the provisions of this Act, and
(b) the provisions of any other Act or law, or of any agreement, covenant or instrument,
the provisions of this Act are to prevail, but to the extent only of the inconsistency.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the owner of a swimming pool the construction or installation of which commenced before 1 August 1990 is not required to obtain any approval under Part 1 of Chapter 7 of the Local Government Act 1993 in respect of the construction, alteration, repair, replacement or maintenance of a child-resistant fence in accordance with the requirements of this Act.
(1) The expenses of constructing, altering, repairing, replacing or maintaining a dividing fence are, to the extent to which they are attributable to work done for the purpose of complying with the requirements of this Act in respect of a swimming pool, to be borne:
(a) by the owner of the premises on which the swimming pool is situated, or
(b) if swimming pools are situated on more than one of the premises bounded by the dividing fence—by the owners of each of those premises in appropriate proportions.
(2) This section prevails over any provision of the Dividing Fences Act 1991 to the contrary.
Any notice that is authorised or required by or under this Act to be served on the owner or occupier of any premises may be served:
(b) by means of a letter addressed to the owner or occupier and sent by post to the premises, or
(b1) by means of facsimile transmission to the facsimile number of the owner or occupier or by means of email to an email address provided by the owner or occupier as an address for service of notices under this Act, or
(c) by means of a letter addressed to the owner or occupier and left at the premises with a person who appears to be of or above the age of 16 years and to reside or to be employed at the premises, or
(d) by means of a letter addressed to the owner or occupier and affixed to some conspicuous part of the premises.
(4) The amount payable under a penalty notice issued under this section is the amount (not exceeding 5 penalty units) prescribed for the alleged offence by the regulations.
No matter or thing done by a member of a local authority, by an authorised officer or by a person acting under the direction of a local authority subjects the member, authorised officer or person so acting personally to any action, liability, claim or demand if the matter or thing was done in good faith for the purpose of executing this Act.
(a) the use of land surrounding or adjoining child-resistant barriers required by this Act, and
(b) the functions of authorised officers, and
(b1) inspections of swimming pools, and
(b2) the Register of Swimming Pools, and
(c) the fees payable under this Act, and
(2) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units.
(3) A regulation may apply, adopt or incorporate the provisions of any standard, code or rule, as in force for the time being.
Part 1 Outdoor pools for residential buildings
Part 2 Swimming pools constructed before August 1990 and existing swimming pools on small properties
Part 3 Existing swimming pools on large properties
Part 4 Existing swimming pools on waterfront properties
(2) Such a provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect on the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.
(3) To the extent to which such a provision takes effect on a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:
Part 2 Provisions consequent on the enactment of the Swimming Pools Act 1992
the repealed Act means the Swimming Pools Act 1990.
(1) An exemption granted under section 14 of the repealed Act is taken to be an exemption granted under section 22 of this Act.
(2) A decision refusing to grant an exemption under section 14 of the repealed Act is taken to be a decision refusing to grant an exemption under section 22 of this Act.
(3) A decision to impose a condition on an exemption under section 14 of the repealed Act is taken to be a decision to impose a condition on an exemption under section 22 of this Act.
7 Certificates of compliance
(1) A certificate of compliance issued under section 15 of the repealed Act is taken to be a certificate of compliance issued under section 24 of this Act.
(2) A decision refusing to issue a certificate of compliance under section 15 of the repealed Act is taken to be a decision refusing to issue a certificate of compliance under section 24 of this Act.
(1) An inspector appointed under section 17 of the repealed Act is taken to be an inspector appointed under section 27 of this Act.
(2) A certificate of identification issued under section 17 of the repealed Act is taken to be a certificate of identification issued under section 27 of this Act.
9–14 (Repealed)
Part 3 Provisions consequent on the enactment of the Swimming Pools Amendment Act 2009
A person who was an inspector in respect of a local authority immediately before the commencement of Schedule 1 [19] to the Swimming Pools Amendment Act 2009 is, on that commencement, taken to have been appointed as an authorised officer by the local authority in accordance with section 27 of the Act.
16 Abolition of Pool Fencing Advisory Committee
(1) The Pool Fencing Advisory Committee is abolished.
(2) Any person holding office as a member of that Committee immediately before its abolition:
(a) ceases to hold office, and
(b) is not entitled to any compensation because of the loss of that office.
Part 4 Provisions consequent on the enactment of the Swimming Pools Amendment Act 2012
amending Act means the Swimming Pools Amendment Act 2012.
18 Existing certificates of compliance
(1) A certificate of compliance issued under section 24 before the repeal of that section by the amending Act is taken to be a certificate of compliance issued under section 22D and remains valid for a period of 3 years from the date on which it was issued or until 6 months after the date of assent to the amending Act (whichever is the later).
(2) A certificate of compliance ceases to be valid if a direction is issued under section 23 in respect of the swimming pool to which the certificate relates.
19 Registration of swimming pools
The owner of premises on which a swimming pool is situated is not required to comply with section 30B until 12 months after the date of assent to the amending Act.
20 Local authority not required to inspect pools
A local authority is not required to carry out an inspection under section 22C (3) until 18 months after the date of assent to the amending Act.
Swimming Pools Act 1992 No 49. Assented to 10.7.1992. Date of commencement, 1.8.1992, sec 2. This Act has been amended as follows:
Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 1 relating to the Swimming Pools Act 1992, assent, Sch 1.
Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Swimming Pools Act 1992, 23.6.1995, sec 2 (1) and GG No 77 of 23.6.1995, p 3279.
Date of commencement of Sch 2.56, assent, sec 2 (2).
Swimming Pools Amendment Act 2009. Assented to 14.12.2009.
Swimming Pools Amendment Act 2012. Assented to 29.10.2012.
Date of commencement of Sch 1, Sch 1 [16] and [26] excepted, assent, sec 2 (1); date of commencement of Sch 1 [16] and [26], 6 months after the date of assent, sec 2 (2).
Rep 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [1].
Subst 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [2]. Am 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [1]–[4].
Am 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [5].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [3].
Rep 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [5].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [4] [6].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [7]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [6].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [8]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [7].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [8]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [8].
Am 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [9].
Am 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [10].
Am 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [4] [9]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [11].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [8]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [12].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [4].
Am 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [13].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [4] [10].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [11].
Am 2008 No 62, Sch 2.56; 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [12] [13]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [14] [15].
Ins 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [16].
Secs 22A–22G
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [4] [14].
Ins 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [15].
Rep 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [17].
Part 2, Div 6, heading
Ins 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [18].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [16]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [19].
Am 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [20] [21].
Rep 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [17].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [18]–[22].
Secs 27A, 27B
Ins 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [22].
Am 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [20] [23]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [23].
Am 2002 No 103, Sch 4.91 [1]–[4]. Subst 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [24]. Am 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [24].
Ins 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [24]. Am 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [25].
Part 3A (secs 30A–30E)
Ins 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [26].
Rep 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [25].
Rep 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [26].
Am 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [27].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [28].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [20] [29]. Subst 2017 No 22, Sch 3.74.
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [20].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [19]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [27].
Rep 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [30].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [31] [32].
Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [33]–[36]; 2012 No 77, Sch 1 [28] [29].
Dictionary, heading
Am 1999 No 31, Sch 5.103. Rep 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [37].
Am 1995 No 11, Sch 1. Rep 2009 No 107, Sch 1 [37].