(1) Any person who constructs a swimming bath, to which the public or any class or section of the public are to have access, shall comply with the following requirements—

a) A hand-hold shall be provided at water-level all around such swimming-bath;

b) The depth of water shall be not less than 1 meter at any part of such swimming-bath shall, not including a children’s paddling-pool;

c) The floor of such swimming-bath shall have a slope not exceeding one vertical in 15 horizontal over any portion of it which normally has a depth of water of less than 2 meters;

d) The surrounds of such swimming-bath shall have a non-skid surface.

(2) If diving-boards are provided, they shall comply with the following requirements—

a) Diving-boards of less than 10 meters in height shall project not less than 1 meter beyond the edge of the swimming-bath, and those 10metres or more in height shall project not less than 2 meters beyond the edge of the swimming-bath;

b) A diving-board above or within 3 meters horizontally of a lower diving-board shall project not less than 1 meter beyond the end of the lower diving-board;

c) Except where variations are permitted by the local authority, diving-boards shall have distances and measurements not less than as set out in Table III and in A, E, F, J and K of the Figure with regard to height above water, horizontal spacing, clearance over-head, length and width;

d) The depth of water provided under diving-boards shall be not less than, and shall extend over, an area not smaller than as set out in Table III and the Figure.

TABLE III

• For the Olympic Games, it is customary for the Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur to specify a depth of 5 metres for the diving-pit. Authorities contemplating the building of a first-class pool with a 10-metre diving-stage would be well advised to provide this depth, which may become compulsory in due course.

FIGURE
REQUIREMENTS FOR SWIMMMING_BATHS