Ridiculous

Stuff reports:

The owners of a private island in Northland have been told to put a barrier around a swimming pool beside the sea, which they say posed “a similar or arguably greater risk to children”.

This is crazy. Not only is it a private island with no children living there, but the pool is next to a rather larger pool called the ocean.

Eames also acknowledged that the owners didn’t have children aged under five, and that the island received few visitors, but “children are likely to frequent any household at some time in the life of the building”.

This just shows how crazy and inflexible some regulations are, or those who administer them. Maybe they should be forced to fence off the ocean also!