Citation.
Application.
Interpretation.
(Cap. 132, sub, Xez)
Prohibition of
unlicensed
swimming
pools, etc.
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 132).
SWIMMING POOLS (NEW TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS 1969.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 42 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations—
1. These regulations may be cited as the Swimming Pools (New Territories) Regulations 1969.
2.
(1) These regulations apply to the New Territories only.
(2) These regulations apply to any swimming pool-
(2) to which the public have access (whether on payment of
a fee or not); or
(b) which is managed by any club, institution, association or
other organization,
but do not apply to any swimming pool owned or managed by or on behalf of the CroWN.
(3) Until the 1st day of April 1970 these regulations shall not apply to a swimming pool the construction of which was com- pleted before the commencement of these regulations.
3. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "communicable disease" includes amoebiasis, cerebrospinal
meningitis, cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, enteric fever, gas- troenteritis, acute inflammation of the throat, infectious hepat- itis, leprosy, any form of linea infection, tuberculosis, polio- myelitis, pediculosis, scabies, scarlet fever, smallpox, any venereal disease or any generalized skin infection, trachoma. acute conjunctivitis and any other disease which is declared by the Urban Council under by-law 3 of the Swimming Pools By-laws to be a communicable disease;
"Director" means the Director of Urban Services; “swimming pool" means any artificially constructed pool used for
swimming or bathing.
4. (1) Save under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Director, no person shall establish or maintain a swimming pool.
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(2) No person shall take any part in the management of a swimming pool the establishment or maintenance of which has not been licensed.
5. (1) Every application for any such licence shall be made in writing, addressed to the Director, and shall be accompanied by three copies of a plan, drawn to scale, of the swimming pool and the whole of the precincts thereof, and such plan shall include the following particulars—
(a) the size and design of the swimming pool;
(b) the depth of water in all parts of the swimming pool; (e) the position and size of all scum gutters:
(d) all drainage and intake vents;
(e) the position of any filtration or purification plant; (f) the position of any permanent steps or ladders leading into the swimming pool and any hand rails or like fittings of a permanent nature provided for the use of bathers; (g) the position, height and type of any diving boards, chutes, rings or like fittings of a permanent nature provided for the use of bathers;
(A) the layout of any paths or open spaces surrounding or adjacent to the swimming pool, together with the means of entry to and exit from the immediate precincts of the swimming pool;
(♪ the layout of any dressing rooms, wash rooms, showers, foot baths, latrines, canteens, stalls or other structures ancillary to the swimming pool; and
() every part of the drainage system.
(2) Every plan submitted for approval pursuant to the pro- visions of paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by a statement in writing declaring-
(a) the source of the water with which the swimming pool
will be filled;
(b)
the type and capacity of any filtration or purification plant which is provided; and
(c) the material used for surfacing the internal surfaces of the swimming pool and any sidewalk or standing space immediately adjoining the rim of the swimming pool.
(3) Every plan, or any modification thereof, which is approved by the Director shall be endorsed to that effect by the Director, and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and the remaining two copies shall be retained by the Director.
Application for licence.