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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1961.
(No. 30 of 1960).
SWIMMING POOLS BY-LAWS, 1961.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 42 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance. 1960, the Urban Council has made the following by-laws-
1. These by-laws may be cited as the Swimming Pools By-laws 1961.
These by-laws apply to the urban areas only and do not apply to any swimming pool owned or managed by or on behalf of the Crom or the Government,
3. (1) In these by-laws, save where the context otherwise requires- "communicable disease" includes amoebiasis, cerebrospinal meningitis, cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, enteric fever, gastroenteritis, acute inflammation of the throat, infectious hepatitis, leprosy, any form of tinea infection, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, pediculosis, scabies. scarlet fever, smallpox, any venereal disease or any generalizad skin infection, trachonia, acute conjunctivitis and any other disease which the Council may, from time to time, declare to be a com- municable disease for the purposes of these by-laws;
"Council" means the Urban Council;
"swimming pool" and "pool" means any artificially constructed pool used for swimming or bathing and to which the public have acces (whether on payment or otherwise) or which belongs to any club. institution, association or other organization.
(2) Whenever the Council declares any disease to be a communi cable disease for the purposes of these by-laws, a notification of such declaration shall be published in the Gazette,
4. (1) Save under and in accordance with a licence granted by of unlicensed the Council, no person shall establish or maintain a swimming pool.
swimming pools, etc.
Application for licence.
(2) No person shall take any part in the management of a swin ming 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 Secretary of the Council, and shall b accompanied by three copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale,
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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 pool:
(6) the depth of water in all parts of the pool:
(c) the position and size of all scum gutlers;
(d) all drainage and intake vents;
(e) the position of any filtration or purification plant;
to the position of any permanent steps or ladders leading into the 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;
() the layout of any paths or open spaces surrounding or adjacent to the pool, together with the means of entry to and exit from the immediate precincts of the pool:
(1) the layout of any dressing rooms, wash rooms, showers, foot baths, latrines, canteens, stalls or other structures ancillary to the swimming pool; and
Ü) every part of the drainage system.
(2) Every plan submitted for approval pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by a statement in writing declaring
(a) the source of the water with which the pool will be filled: (6) 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 pool and any sidewalk or standing space immediately adjoining the rim of the pool.
(3) Every plan, or any modification thereof, which is approved by the Council shall be endorsed to that effect by the Secretary of
the Council, and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and the remaining two copies shall be retained by the Council
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6. (0) No such licence shall be granted unless the Council is Conditions satisfied in relation to the swimming pool in respect of which the for issue of application for such licence was made, and in relation to the premises permining to such swimming pool, that—
(a) the plan referred to in by-law 5 bas been approved by the
Council and the swimming pool conforms thereto;
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