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Building Act 1975
sec.245WWhen particular local law has no force or effect for regulated pool
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### sec.245W When particular local law has no force or effect for regulated pool
This section applies to a provision of a local law to the extent it regulates pool safety matters for a regulated pool.
On the day the owner of the regulated pool must, under this Act, ensure the pool complies with the pool safety standard, the provision of the local law, to the extent it regulates pool safety matters, is taken to have no force or effect in relation to the pool.
In this section—
pool safety matters , for a regulated pool, means—
the construction or maintenance of barriers for the pool; or
a matter for ensuring the safety of persons using a regulated pool and prescribed under section 231D (1) , definition pool safety standard , paragraph (b) .
s 245W (prev s 246) ins 1993 No. 70 s 804 sch
sub 1998 No. 13 s 12
amd 2003 No. 53 s 8 ; 2006 No. 59 s 25
sub 2010 No. 35 s 14
renum 2011 No. 27 s 217
(sec.245W-ssec.1) This section applies to a provision of a local law to the extent it regulates pool safety matters for a regulated pool.
(sec.245W-ssec.2) On the day the owner of the regulated pool must, under this Act, ensure the pool complies with the pool safety standard, the provision of the local law, to the extent it regulates pool safety matters, is taken to have no force or effect in relation to the pool.
(sec.245W-ssec.3) In this section— pool safety matters , for a regulated pool, means— the construction or maintenance of barriers for the pool; or a matter for ensuring the safety of persons using a regulated pool and prescribed under section 231D (1) , definition pool safety standard , paragraph (b) .
- (a) the construction or maintenance of barriers for the pool; or
- (b) a matter for ensuring the safety of persons using a regulated pool and prescribed under section 231D (1) , definition pool safety standard , paragraph (b) .