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162D: Periodic inspections of residential pools
or “Home swimming pools must be checked regularly to make sure they have safe fences or barriers”
You could also call this:

“People who make or sell swimming products must give buyers a note about pool safety rules.”

If you make, sell, or offer to sell any new product in New Zealand that people can swim, wade, paddle, or bathe in (except for normal home baths), you need to provide a notice with it. This notice must be approved by the chief executive and explain the responsibilities of owners, pool operators, and occupiers under section 162C(4).

The chief executive can approve the form of these notices by publishing it in the Gazette. This is an official government publication.

If you don’t provide this notice, you’re breaking the law. This is called an infringement offence, which means you can be fined without going to court.

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Part 2 Building
Special provisions for residential pools

162EManufacturers and retailers must supply notice

  1. Every person who manufactures, sells, or offers for sale in New Zealand any new product that is designed to be used for swimming, wading, paddling, or bathing, other than an ordinary home bath, must ensure that there is supplied with the pool a notice approved by the chief executive setting out or summarising the responsibilities of owners, pool operators, and occupiers under section 162C(4).

  2. The chief executive may, by notice in the Gazette, approve the form of notices for the purpose of subsection (1).

  3. Every person who fails to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence.

  4. An offence against subsection (3) is an infringement offence.

Notes
  • Section 162E: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Building (Pools) Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 71).