The Supreme Court held that AS 1926.2-2007, properly construed, requires a safety barrier to be installed at a location that physically separates any Class 1 building (including a pool house with habitable rooms) from the swimming pool and its immediate surrounds; a pool house classified as a Class 1a building cannot be sited within the area enclosed by the pool safety barrier with direct access to the pool via sliding doors. The Court also held that an enforcement notice under s 213 of the PDI Act was sufficiently clear and unambiguous where it identified the nature of the breach, specified the need for a barrier between the pool house and pool area, and identified the relevant Australian Standards to be complied with, without needing to specify which particular clauses of the standards were breached.
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