2015-04-2015 Attachment 1 to Item 20 Planning and Organisation Committee Agenda - Proposed Noosa Council Local Law No. 1 to No. 6

                       Noosa Shire Council Local Law No. 6 (Bathing Reserves) 2015                           5


Division 2                 Bathing areas
6       Bathing areas
      (1) An authorised person may mark out an area (a bathing area) within a bathing
          reserve.
      (2) The area selected as a bathing area must be the part of the bathing reserve that is,
          in the authorised person’s opinion, the safest and most suitable for bathing in view
          of the prevailing conditions.
      (3) The bathing area is marked out by placing 2 patrol flags at different points on or
          adjacent to the foreshore.
      (4) The bathing area consists of the area defined by—
            (a)    an imaginary line between the 2 patrol flags; and
            (b)    lateral boundaries extending seaward from each patrol flag at right angles
                   from the imaginary line; and
            (c)    an outer boundary parallel to, and 200 metres to the seaward side of, the
                   imaginary line.
      (5) Where the boundary of the bathing reserve is less than 200 metres to the seaward
          side of an imaginary line between the 2 patrol flags, then the boundary of the
          bathing area shall be the outer boundary of the bathing reserve.
      (6) An authorised person may, in view of prevailing conditions, change the boundaries
          of a bathing area by changing the position of the patrol flags.
      (7) Patrol flags must not be exhibited if the bathing area is not under surveillance by a
          life-saving patrol.

7       Flags to inform bathers about prevailing conditions
      (1) This section applies if—
            (a)    an authorised person has marked out a bathing area under section 6; and
            (b) in the authorised person’s opinion, there are potentially hazardous
                conditions prevailing within the bathing area.
      (2) The authorised person must exhibit in a prominent position on or adjacent to the
          foreshore a yellow flag warning bathers of the potentially hazardous conditions.

8       Closure of bathing reserve
      (1) An authorised person may close a bathing reserve or part of a bathing reserve to
          bathing by erecting a red flag in a prominent position on or adjacent to the
          foreshore.3
            Example—
            The authorised person may close the bathing reserve if the prevailing conditions pose a risk to the
            lives of members of the public bathing in the reserve.
      (2) If patrol flags marking out a bathing area have been placed in position, the patrol
          flags must be removed on closure of the bathing reserve or a part of the bathing
          reserve in which the bathing area is situated.


3
 Although this local law does not require strict compliance with Australian Standard No. 2416 (Design and
Application of Water Safety Signs), that standard should, where practicable, be complied with.