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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: Sale and lease ban on units with pools if safety standards not met Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:50 pm | |
| Owners of apartments in blocks with swimming pools and spas could be barred from selling or letting their properties if these pools do not meet safety standards, under new regulations due to come in this autumn.
And while the State Government warns that most pools in apartment blocks could fail certification checks, strata industry experts say unit owners could already be out of time to fix the problems, with waiting lists for inspections and then the time taken to rectify faults pushing many blocks past the April 29 deadline.
"The time frame for rectifying non-compliant pool areas can take months, even longer in the case of strata schemes," says Anthea Ellis, a lawyer at strata specialists Makinson d'Apice. "We know of one particular scheme where it took one year from the initial inspection to make the pool compliant.
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