Chapter 244
In short
This law, called the Swimming Pools (Control) Act, is about controlling swimming pools and related matters. It ensures that swimming pools are constructed, operated, and used with proper permission.
What it regulates
- The construction of swimming pools.
- The operation of swimming pools.
- The use of swimming pools.
- The granting of permissions for swimming pools.
Who it concerns
- Any person who constructs, operates, or allows the use of a swimming pool.
- Directors, managers, secretaries, or similar officers of associations or bodies of persons that commit an offence under this Act.
Key points
- No person may construct, operate, or permit the use of any swimming pool without the written permission of the Minister.
- The Minister can make regulations to control and regulate swimming pools and the granting of permissions.
- Offences under this Act or its regulations carry a fine of not less than six hundred and ninety-eight euro and eighty-one cents (698.81) but not exceeding two thousand and three hundred and twenty-nine euro and thirty-seven cents (2,329.37).
- A "swimming pool" is defined as any built-up, constructed, or dug-in area with a maximum internal height of at least ninety centimetres, filled or intended to be filled with water, not solely for agricultural purposes, and includes any recipient for swimming or bathing.
Legal text
Legal text
SWIMMING POOLS (CONTROL) CHAPTER 244 SWIMMING POOLS (CONTROL) ACT To provide for the control of swimming pools and for matters ancillary or incidental thereto. (21st June, 1974)* ACT XXXI of 1974, as amended by Act XIII of 1983; Legal Notice 411 of 2007; and Acts II of 2009 and XXVI of
- Act.
- The short title of this Act is the Swimming Pools (Control) Short title. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires - Interpretation. Amended by: II. 2009.
- "Minister" means the Minister responsible for resources; "person" includes a body or association of persons; "swimming pool" means any built up, constructed or dug in area, the maximum internal height of which is at any point not less than ninety centimetres, which is filled or is intended to be filled with water, and is not used solely for agricultural purposes, but does not include any cistern used solely for water collection and/or storage; it also includes any recipient, made of whatever material, which could be used for swimming or bathing purposes.
- No person may construct, operate, or allow or permit the use of any swimming pool without the written permission of the Minister. Swimming pools subject to Minister’s permission.
- The Minister may make regulations, and when made may vary, alter or, without prejudice to the making of new regulations, revoke such regulations, to control and regulate the construction, operation and use of swimming pools and the grant of permissions under article
- Power to make regulations. Amended by: XXVI. 2014.
- Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or of any regulations made thereunder shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine (multa) of not less than six hundred and ninety-eight euro and eighty-one cents (698.81) but not exceeding two thousand and three hundred and twenty-nine euro and thirty-seven cents (2,329.37). Offences and penalties. Amended by: XIII. 1983.5; L.N. 411 of
- Where an offence under this Act is committed by an association or body of persons, every person who, at the time of the commission of the offence, was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of such association or body of persons, or was purporting to act in any such capacity, shall be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence. Offences by bodies of persons. *See Government Notice No. 416 of 21st June, 1974.