Swimming Pools Amendment (Transitional) Regulation 2012 (NSW)

2012 No 581

New South Wales

Swimming Pools Amendment (Transitional) Regulation 2012

under the

Swimming Pools Act 1992

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Swimming Pools Act 1992.

DON PAGE, MP

Minister for Local Government

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to allow the owner of premises on which a swimming pool is situated to apply to the local authority for a certificate of compliance in respect of the swimming pool under section 24 of the Swimming Pools Act 1992 (despite the repeal of that section by the Swimming Pools Amendment Act 2012) until the new regime for the issue of such certificates commences 6 months after that repeal.

This Regulation is made under the Swimming Pools Act 1992, including section 38 (the general regulation-making power) and clause 1 of Schedule 3 to that Act.

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Clause 1	Swimming Pools Amendment (Transitional) Regulation 2012

Swimming Pools Amendment (Transitional) Regulation

2012

under the

Swimming Pools Act 1992

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Swimming Pools Amendment (Transitional)
Regulation 2012.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the
NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Swimming Pools Regulation 2008

Insert after clause 23:

23A

Certificates of compliance

(1)	Despite the repeal of section 24 of the Act by the Swimming Pools Amendment Act 2012, a certificate under that section can be applied for within 6 months after the repeal of that section and can be issued pursuant to such an application as if that section had not been repealed.
(2)	A certificate issued pursuant to such an application 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.
(3)	Such a certificate ceases to be valid if a direction is issued under section 23 in respect of the swimming pool to which the certificate relates.