  SWIMMING  POOLS  (CONTROL) [ CAP. 244.          1
CHAPTER 244 
SWIMMING POOLS (CONTROL) ACT
To provide for the control of swimming pools and for matters ancillary
or incidental thereto.
(21st June, 1974) *
Enacted by ACT XXXI of 1974, as amended by Act XIII of 1983.
Short title.
Act.   
Interpretation.
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for water supply;
"person" includes a body or association of persons; 
"swimming pool" means any built up, constructed or dug in area,
the maximum internal height of which is at any point not less than
ninety centimetres, which is filled or is intended to be filled with
water, and is not used solely for agricultural purposes, but does not
include any cistern used solely for water collection and/or storage;
it also includes any recipient, made of whatever material, which
could be used for swimming or bathing purposes.
Swimming pools 
subject to 
Minister’s 
permission.
3. No person may construct, operate, or allow or permit the
use of any swimming pool without the written permission of the
Minister.
Power to make 
regulations.
4. (1) The Minister may make regulations, and when made
may vary, alter or, without prejudice to the making of new
regulations, revoke such regulations, to control and regulate the
construction, operation and use of swimming pools and the grant of
permissions under section 3 of this Act.
(2) Any regulations made under this Act shall be laid on the
Table of the House of Representatives as soon as may be after they
are made and if, within the period of twenty-eight days after they
are so laid, the House resolves that they be annulled or amended,
the same shall thereupon cease to have effect or shall be so
amended, as the case may require, but without prejudice to the
validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of
new regulations.
(3) In reckoning for the purpose of subsection (2) of this
section any such period of twenty-eight days, no account shall be
taken of any time during which the House of Representatives is not
in session or during which it is adjourned for more than seven days.
Offences and 
penalties. 
Amended by: 
XIII. 1983.5.
5. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this
Act or of any regulations made thereunder shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine ( multa ) of not
less than three hundred liri but not exceeding one thousand liri.
* See  Government Notice No. 416 of 21st June, 1974.
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Offences by bodies 
of persons.
6. Where an offence under this Act is committed by an
association or body of persons, every person who, at the time of the
commission of the offence, was a director, manager, secretary or
other similar officer of such association or body of persons, or was
purporting to act in any such capacity, shall be guilty of that
offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without
his knowledge and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the
commission of the offence.
