New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

SWIMMING POOLS REGULATION 1998 - REG 8

8 General requirements: sec 14

(1) For the purposes of section 14 of the Act, the prescribed standards in accordance with which access to a swimming pool is to be restricted are as provided by this clause.

(2) In relation to each doorway giving access to the swimming pool:

(a) the door (or, if there is a security door in addition to another door, either of those doors) must be a child-safe door and must be kept child-safe by means of a lock, latch, bolt, chain or other child-resistant device located at least 1.5 metres above finished floor level, and

(b) there must not, on the door or on the door frame, be any footholds wider than 10 millimetres between the release mechanism of the door and any point 100 millimetres above finished floor level.

(3) A lock, latch, bolt, chain or other child-resistant device located less than 1.5 metres above finished floor level is taken not to be a foothold for the purposes of subclause (2) (b).

(4) In relation to each window giving access to the swimming pool:

(a) the bottom of the lowest opening panel of the window must (when measured in the closed position) be at least 1.2 metres above finished floor level, and

(b) there must not be any footholds wider than 10 millimetres between the bottom of the lowest opening panel of the window and any point within 1.1 metres below the bottom of that panel.

(5) Subclause (4) does not apply to a child-safe window or to a window that is totally enclosed by a child-safe grille or by a fixed child-safe flyscreen.