Keeping track of your pool safety certificate expiry

QBCC says a pool safety certificate lasts 2 years for a non-shared pool and 1 year for a shared pool. QBCC's open data file shows when a certificate was recorded but not when it ends, so you work the date out from the issue date on your copy. PoolPreCert's Certificates page does the sum and emails a reminder 60 days before, 14 days before and on the day.Source: QBCC, Buy, sell or lease a property with a pool (page reviewed 15 May 2025, read 31 Oct 2026); QBCC pool safety register open data (last updated 2 Sep 2024).

Work out your date

1. Find your copy. If you cannot, here is how to get one, or search the property on QBCC's register, which shows whether a current certificate is in place.
2. Read the issue date on it.
3. Decide whether the pool is shared (units and complexes) or not (a house with its own pool).
4. Add 1 year if it is shared, or 2 years if it is not. That is the date to plan around. If anything on your copy or on the register disagrees with your sum, ask the inspector or QBCC.

Set a reminder

With a PoolPreCert account, open the Certificates page, add the certificate and enter the issue date. If you leave the expiry date blank it uses 1 year for a shared pool and 2 years for a non-shared pool. PoolPreCert then emails the account owner 60 days before the date, 14 days before and on the day, with a link back to the Certificates page. It does not check the date with QBCC, so it is only as right as the dates you enter. You can use a phone calendar instead: set the first alert about two months ahead.

Book before it runs out

If the pool needs work, QBCC says the same inspector must re-inspect within 3 months of a Form 26 notice, and QBCC's own advice is that fixing fencing problems takes time, so leave room. If you are about to sell or lease, build the inspection into that timetable: the steps in order, then find an inspector near you.

What changes once the date has gone by

• Selling: with no current certificate, QBCC says a Form 36 is lodged and a copy goes to the buyer. Selling a property with a pool.
• Leasing a house with its own pool: QBCC says a lease must not be entered into unless a certificate is in effect. Leasing a property with a pool.
• Not selling or leasing: the barrier must still meet the pool safety standard at all times. We found no QBCC or Queensland Government page that says what else happens when a certificate simply lapses, so we do not say.

Why the open data cannot tell you

QBCC publishes a pool safety register file on the Queensland open data portal. When we last checked its columns on 9 October 2026 it had a date for each certificate (its "Date Submitted") but no expiry date and no certificate number, and the data was last updated on 2 September 2024. For a current answer about a property, use QBCC's own pool register search.

How this page was made: the PoolPreCert team read each page listed under Sources on 31 October 2026 and wrote this in plain words. The dates beside each source are the dates those pages show. PoolPreCert is not part of QBCC or the Queensland Government, and only a licensed pool safety inspector decides whether a pool meets the standard.