Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948

Life-guards and life-saving equipment.

37.—(1) A sanitary authority may employ one or more than one life-guard at—

(a) a bathing place or swimming bath maintained by them, or

(b) a bathing place or swimming bath situate in their sanitary district to which the public are admitted free of charge and which is maintained neither by them, by any other sanitary authority nor by the commissioners of any town.

(2) A sanitary authority may provide and maintain equipment and appliances for saving persons from drowning at—

(a) a bathing place or swimming bath maintained by them,

(b) a bathing place or swimming bath situate in their sanitary district to which the public are admitted free of charge and which is maintained neither by them, by any other sanitary authority nor by the commissioners of any town, or

(c) any place situate in their sanitary district where they think those appliances are likely to be of use.

(3) A person who wrongfully removes, interferes with or damages equipment or apparatus provided under this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to both such fine and such imprisonment.