Dress and conduct at swimming pools and bathing places
56 Dress and conduct at swimming pools and bathing places
(1) A person in or near a swimming pool or bathing place must be dressed in a manner that is appropriate and adequate.
(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 enter a public swimming pool or be in or near a bathing place.
(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.
A person must not wilfully:
foul or pollute the water of; or
foul or pollute a dressing room, toilet or shower in,
a public swimming pool or bathing place.
(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 damage the property of or injure, endanger, obstruct, inconvenience or annoy a person in a public swimming pool or bathing place.
(9) If an authorised person is of the opinion that a person in or near a public swimming pool or bathing place is contravening this by-law, the authorised person may direct the person to:
(a) if, in the opinion of the authorised person, the person is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs – leave the public swimming pool or bathing place; or
in any other case:
(i) do an act so that the person will be complying with this by-law or cease doing the act that does not comply with this by-law; or
leave the public swimming pool or bathing place,
as the authorised person considers appropriate.
(10) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a direction given to the person by an authorised person under clause (9) commits an offence.
(11) A person who, without lawful authority, tampers with or alters any setting of or makes any adjustment to any structure, equipment or facility in a public place commits an offence.
Penalty: $3 000.
An offence against clause (11) is a regulatory offence.
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