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Swimming Pools Act 1992
17Warning notices must be erected near swimming pools
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17 Warning notices must be erected near swimming pools
> > (1) The occupier of any premises in or on which a swimming pool is situated must ensure that there is at all times maintained, in a prominent position in the immediate vicinity of the swimming pool, a sign erected in accordance with the regulations and bearing the notice required by the regulations.
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> > Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
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> > (2) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the erection, display and maintenance of other signs, and the notices to be borne by those signs, by the occupier of any premises in or on which a swimming pool is situated.
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> > (3) Failure to comply with the requirements of this section or of a regulation which is expressed to be made for the purposes of this section does not give rise to any civil liability that would not exist apart from this section.
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> **s 17:** Am 2009 No 107, Sch 1 \[11\].