Lodge your barrier compliance

Step 1.Receive your certificate

When your barrier meets the required safety standard, your building surveyor or inspector will issue a Form 23 Certificate of Barrier Compliance.

You will need to upload the certificate within 30 days of receiving it from your building surveyor or inspector.

If you are a building inspector or building surveyor wishing to lodge a Certificate of Barrier Non-Compliance, click on the "Non-compliance" tab above.

Step 2.Have your credit card ready

A lodgement fee applies. This fee is set by the Victorian state government.

Please note we only accept Visa or MasterCard.

Step 3.Lodge your certificate online

• If you don’t have an online account with Council’s Greenlight program, email your Certificate to building@swanhill.vic.gov.au
  
  
• If you registered your pool online via Council’s online platform Greenlight, click the button below to lodge your Certificate.  Log in, search for your application via the first option called "My Application / Retrieve Existing Applications" and upload your Certificate (Form 23).

Lodge a Certificate of Barrier Compliance

Step 4.Receive confirmation

Council will send you confirmation that your Certificate has been accepted and will advise when your next Certificate is due. 

Certificates are to be lodged every four years.

Step 1.If the inspector determines that your safety barrier is not compliant

They can either:

• immediately issue a certificate of barrier non-compliance
• 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)
  • the date and time they intend to reinspect the barrier

Step 2.After re-inspection

If the inspector determines that the pool barrier is compliant:

• The inspector will issue a certificate of barrier compliance
• You must then lodge the certificate of barrier compliance with Council (go to 'Compliant' tab for instructions).

If the inspector determines that the pool barrier remains non-compliant:

If the barrier remains non-compliant, but the inspector is satisfied that progress has been made towards bringing the barrier into compliance they may allow you an additional seven days to rectify the barrier.  Otherwise, they will issue a certificate of barrier non-compliance.

If an inspector issues a certificate of barrier non-compliance

1. If an inspector issues a certificate of barrier non-compliance (Form 24), they will lodge it with Council and provide you with a copy. The form must be submitted together with a copy of the inspection report and all relevant photographs.
2. The Council will notify you and you will have to pay a lodgement fee by the due date specified in the notice. This fee is set by the Victorian State Government. Please note we only accept Visa or Mastercard.
3. A lodgement fee applies. This fee is set by the Victorian state government. Please note we only accept Visa or MasterCard.

Step 3.What Happens Next?

When the council receives the certificate of barrier non-compliance, the municipal building surveyor will issue either:

• a barrier improvement notice (usually issued for minor non-compliance matters. The notice specifies what you must fix to make the barrier compliant, as well as the period that you must take this action within).
• a notice or emergency order under the Building Act 1993 (if the Municipal Building Surveyor considers that this is appropriate, depending on the nature of the non-compliance).