New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SWIMMING POOLS ACT 1992 - SECT 10

10 Exemption for swimming pools on waterfront properties

(1) This section applies to swimming pools the construction or installation of which commenced before 1 July 2010.

(2) A swimming pool that is situated on premises having frontage to any large body of water (such as a permanently flowing creek, a river, a canal, a pond, a lake, a reservoir, an estuary, the sea or any other body of water, whether natural or artificial) is not required to be surrounded by a child-resistant barrier so long as the means of access to the swimming pool from any residential building situated on the premises are at all times restricted in accordance with the standards prescribed by the regulations.

(3) The diagram in Part 4 of Schedule 1 illustrates the provisions of this section.

(4) A reference in this section to a residential building does not include a reference to a structure (such as a garage or shed) that is ancillary to the building if the structure is not itself used for residential purposes.

(5) This section ceases to apply in respect of a swimming pool if a barrier is erected on the premises (between the swimming pool and a residential building) as a barrier to direct access to the swimming pool from any residential building situated on the premises.