PCM is a family owned business located in North East Victoria Border region. 
Our mission is to keep you and yours safe around water

New laws to improve swimming pool and spa safety have been introduced in Victoria. It is now mandatory for owners of land where a swimming pool or spa is located to register their pool or spa with local council.

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Owners are also required to have their safety barriers inspected and to lodge a certificate of barrier compliance with their council. If a safety barrier is not compliant, it is the owner’s responsibility to make the barrier compliant.

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The new laws apply to swimming pools and spas that are capable of holding more than 300 mm (30 cm) of water. This includes permanent pools, above ground pools, indoor pools, hot tubs, bathing or wading pools and some relocatable pools.

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Barrier inspections

Once your swimming pool or spa has been registered, book an inspection with us to determine if the barrier is compliant with the applicable barrier standard.

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Certificate of barrier compliance

If our inspection determines that your safety barrier complies with the applicable barrier standard, we will issue a certificate of barrier compliance. As the owner of the land with the pool or spa, you then need to lodge the certificate with your council. You must do this within 30 days of the date of issue of the certificate.

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Contact your council for more information.

When the council receives the certificate, they will send you a written notice, which confirms:

• the date the certificate was lodged

• the date by which the next certificate is required to be lodged, which is four years after the previous certificate.

You will need to pay a fee to the council when you lodge the certificate.

Deadlines for inspection and lodgement of certificate of barrier compliance

Pools and spas constructed (or where construction commenced) before 1 November 2020

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Non-compliant barriers

If during our inspection we find that your safety barrier is not compliant, we will:

• issue you a written notice specifying: 

  • the matters which must be addressed to bring the pool barrier into compliance;

  • the period in which the barrier must be made compliant (within a maximum of 60 days); and

  • the date and time we intend to reinspect the barrier.

After re-inspection, if we can determine that the pool barrier is compliant, The Pool Compliance Man will issue a certificate of barrier compliance, which you must then lodge with council.

If the barrier remains non-compliant,we will issue a certificate of barrier non-compliance.

If an inspector issues a certificate of barrier non-compliance, they will lodge it with the relevant council and provide you with a copy. The council will notify you and you will have to pay a fee by the due date specified in the notice.