KATHERINE TOWN COUNCIL BY-LAWS 1998
102Dress and conduct at public swimming pools, &c.
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102 Dress and conduct at public swimming pools, &c. (1) An authorised person, who is of the opinion that the dress of a person in or near a public swimming pool or bathing place is not appropriate or is inadequate, may direct the person to: (a) remedy the defect as reasonably required; or (b) leave the public swimming pool or bathing place. (2) A male person over the age of 5 years must not enter a dressing room, toilet or shower set aside for females, and a female over the age of 5 years must not enter a dressing room, toilet or shower set aside for males. (3) A person under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs must not be permitted entrance to a public swimming pool. (4) An authorised person, who is of the opinion that a person who is in a public swimming pool or bathing place is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, may direct the person to leave the public swimming pool or bathing place.
Katherine Town Council By-laws 1998 59 (5) A person who is suffering, or appears to an authorised person to be suffering, from an infectious, contagious or offensive skin disease or skin complaint must not enter or use a public swimming pool or waters in a bathing place. (6) A person must not commit a nuisance of any kind within a public swimming pool or bathing place. (7) A person must not wilfully: (a) foul or pollute the water of; or (b) foul or pollute a dressing room, toilet or shower in, a public place, reserve or public swimming pool. (8) A person must not play a game or do any act that is dangerous, is likely to interfere with the safety or comfort of the general public or is likely to injure the property of or injure, endanger, obstruct, inconvenience or annoy a person in a public swimming pool or bathing place. (9) A person who, in a public swimming pool or bathing place: (a) without lawful authority, tampers with or alters any setting or makes any adjustment to any structure, equipment or facility; or (b) contravenes or fails to comply with a direction of an authorised person, (10) An offence against clause (9) is an offence of strict liability.