Building and Energy collate this data and publish the ‘Progress report: Local government periodic inspections of private swimming pool safety barriers’. The reports are
intended to hold local governments accountable, ensuring they make a genuine effort to meet their mandatory obligations to inspect safety barriers to private swimming pools within the maximum four-year timeframe.
Local government safety barrier inspection reporting - fact sheet
Fact sheet
Local governments are required to provide private swimming pool safety barrier inspection data for each financial year to the Building Commissioner by 1 August of the following financial year. This fact sheet provides more information about the reporting scheme.
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19 March 2026
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