An Act to make provisions with respect to the Newcastle International Sports Centre; to provide for the appointment of additional trustees thereof, for the establishment of a club within the Centre and for the registration of that club under the Liquor Act 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts; to amend the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913, the Liquor Act 1912, and certain other Acts; and for purposes connected therewith.
1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Newcastle International Sports Centre Act 1967.
2 Definitions
In this Act, unless the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:Centre means the Newcastle International Sports Centre.Club means the club referred to in subsection one of section nine of this Act.Newcastle International Sports Centre means such of the lands described in the Schedule to this Act and any lands added thereto under the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913, as amended by subsequent Acts, as are from time to time under the care and management of the trustees.Trustees means trustees of the Centre.
3 Appointment of additional trustees
Subsection (5) of section 37O of the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913, as amended by subsequent Acts, in its application to and in respect of the Centre, shall be deemed to be amended by omitting the word “seven” and by inserting in lieu thereof the word “eleven”.s 3: Am 1974 No 37, sec 13 (3) (a).
4 (Repealed)
s 4: Rep 1974 No 37, sec 13 (3) (b).
5 Use and improvement of land
For avoidance of doubt it is declared that:(a) the trustees may in their discretion from time to time permit or suffer the Centre, or any part thereof, to be used by such persons, clubs, associations, leagues, unions or other bodies at such times and upon such terms and conditions as the trustees may think fit and proper for or in connection with any of the following purposes:(i) the playing or organising of any game of sport,(ii) the holding or organising of athletic sports or public amusements, and(iii) any other purpose whatsoever of which the Minister may from time to time approve, and(b) the trustees may carry out or cause to be carried out any work in connection with the improvement, development and maintenance of the Centre or for making the Centre suitable for the purposes referred to in paragraph (a) of this section, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, such work may include the designing or re-designing of the areas used or to be used for any of those purposes, the erection, reconstruction or demolition of any building or structure, and the provision of stands and other accommodation for spectators and other persons.
6 Acquisition of adjacent land
The trustees may, with the approval of the Minister, acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise any land adjacent to the Centre and upon such acquisition the land so acquired shall become Crown lands and shall be deemed to be land added to the Centre under the provisions of subsection two of section twenty-eight of the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913, as amended by subsequent Acts, and the provisions of that subsection shall apply and have effect in respect of such land as if the Minister had, by notification in the Gazette, on the day of acquisition of such land by the trustees declared that such land had been added to the Centre.
7 Public appeals
(1) The trustees may conduct public appeals for funds for the purposes of the Centre.(2) Nothing in the Charitable Collections Act 1934, as amended by subsequent Acts, shall apply to the Centre or the trustees in the conduct by the trustees of any appeal referred to in subsection one of this section.
8 Rules and regulations
(1) Subsection (1) of section 37II of the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913, as amended by subsequent Acts, in its application to and in respect of the Centre, shall be deemed to be amended by inserting next after paragraph (q) the following new paragraphs:(ql) the admission of members of the public to the Centre or any part thereof,(q2) the admission to membership of the Centre or any part thereof,(q3) the protection of any fence, gate, building or structure, machinery or equipment or other property vested in or under the care and management of the trustees and situated on the Centre.(2) By-laws made under section 37II of the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913, including by-laws deemed to have been made under that section, shall not apply to or in respect of the part of the Centre designated under subsection one of section nine of this Act to be used for the premises of the club or any persons on the part so designated.s 8: Am 1974 No 37, sec 13 (3) (c).
9 Establishment of club within the Centre
(1) The trustees may establish a club and from time to time designate any part of the Centre to be used for the premises of the club.(2) The business and affairs of the club shall be under the management of a committee consisting of the trustees for the time being, who shall be deemed to have been elected annually by the general body of members.(3) Subject to this Act, the trustees may make rules for the conduct and management of the club.(4) Subsection two of this section shall be deemed to be a rule of the club.(5) In relation to persons on the part of the Centre designated under subsection one of this section to be used for the premises of the club, the trustees shall have the same powers as they would have had if the reservation of that part for public recreation had been revoked and that part had been vested in the trustees for an estate in fee simple in trust for the members of the club.
10 (Repealed)
s 10: Rep 1982 No 148, Sch 1.
Schedule Newcastle International Sports Centre
(Section 2)
Description
All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 73 acres 2 roods 10 perches be the same more or less situated in the County of Northumberland Parish of Newcastle at Broadmeadow being portions 3125 and 3129 as shown on plans catalogued N8504-2111 and N8529-2111 in the Department of Lands, Sydney, and comprising the land within Reserve No 84753 from Sale for Public Recreation subject to an easement for Sewerage Purposes resumed by Gazette notification of 2 January 1942.