Parramatta Stadium Trust By-law 2010

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following By-law under the Parramatta Stadium Trust Act 1988.

KEVIN GREENE, MPMinister for Sport and Recreation

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of By-law

This By-law is the Parramatta Stadium Trust By-law 2010.

Note—

This By-law replaces the Parramatta Stadium Trust By-law 2005 which is repealed on 1 September 2010 by section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.

2 Commencement

This By-law commences on 1 September 2010 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Definitions

(1)  In this By-law:

event means a sporting or other event held with the permission of the Trust.

plant means any aquatic or terrestrial plant and includes a shrub or tree.

reserved area means a grandstand in the Stadium, or a part of a grandstand in the Stadium, that is set aside for reserved seats in accordance with clause 4.

reserved seat means a seat that is situated within a reserved area.

Stadium means the stadium that is situated on the trust land.

the Act means the Parramatta Stadium Trust Act 1988.

ticket means a ticket issued by or with the authority of the Trust, being a ticket that authorises its holder:

(a)  to enter the Stadium or a reserved area within the Stadium, or

(b)  to occupy a reserved seat within the Stadium.

Trust means the Parramatta Stadium Trust.

(2)  Notes included in this By-law do not form part of this By-law.

4 Reserved areas

The Trust may, either generally or for a particular event, set aside any grandstand in the Stadium, or any part of a grandstand in the Stadium, for reserved seats.

Part 2 Regulation of conduct on trust land

5 Entry

(1)  The Trust may impose such conditions as the Trust thinks fit, by means of notices conspicuously displayed on or about the trust land or the giving of directions, on the admission of persons or vehicles to the trust land.

(2)  A person must comply with any condition to which the person’s entrance was subject.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(3)  The Trust may refuse to admit a vehicle to the trust land.

(4)  A person must not cause a vehicle to enter the trust land if admission is refused by the Trust.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

6 Tickets

(1)  A person must not enter or remain in the Stadium or any reserved area or occupy a reserved seat unless the person is in lawful possession of an appropriate ticket.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2)  The Trust may direct a person to produce an appropriate ticket for inspection by the Trust if the person is within the Stadium or any reserved area or is occupying a reserved seat.

(3)  The Trust may direct a person who is in unlawful possession of a ticket to surrender the ticket to the Trust.

(4)  A person must comply with a direction under this clause.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

7 Driving and parking

(1)  The Trust may, by means of notices or barriers, regulate the driving and parking of vehicles on the trust land.

(2)  A person must not cause a vehicle to be driven or parked on the trust land in wilful contravention of any such notice or in wilful disregard of any such barrier.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(3)  The Trust:

(a)  may from time to time fix a scale of charges for the parking of vehicles on the trust land, and

(b)  may demand and receive such charges from any person parking a vehicle on the trust land.

(4)  The Trust may direct a person to remove from the trust land any unlawfully parked vehicle that is under the person’s control.

(5)  A person must comply with a direction under this clause.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(6)  For the purposes of this clause, park includes stand and wait.

8 Liquor

A person must not bring liquor onto the trust land except for the purpose of supply to premises that are the subject of a licence under the Liquor Act 2007.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

9 Entry onto playing fields

A person must not, during any event, enter or remain on a playing field within the trust land unless the person is:

(a)  a participant in the event, or

(b)  a person engaged in the control or management of the event.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

10 Damage to trust land and matter on trust land

A person must not do any of the following on trust land:

(a)  damage any lawn, green or playing field, except in the course of, and as a normal incident of, an event or training for an event,

(b)  damage, destroy or remove any plant or part of a plant,

(c)  remove any timber, log or stump, standing or fallen,

(d)  dig up or remove any soil, sand, stone or similar substance,

(e)  damage, deface, disturb or otherwise interfere with any rock, road, path, building, structure, sign, fixture, machinery or equipment,

(f)  light any fire,

(g)  climb in any tree or on any building, or climb or jump over any fence, seat, table, enclosure or other structure,

(h)  destroy, capture, injure or interfere with any animal living within the trust land,

(i)  destroy or interfere with the habitat of any animal.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

11 Animals

A person must not:

(a)  allow any stock to depasture within the trust land, or

(b)  allow any animal in the person’s custody or under the person’s control to enter on or remain within the trust land (unless the animal is to be or is being exhibited in an authorised show or display), or

(c)  within the trust land, ride any animal or act contrary to any sign erected by the Trust that regulates the movement or confinement of animals.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

12 Camping and erection of structures

(1)  A person must not, within the trust land:

(a)  camp or reside, or

(b)  cause any building, structure or thing to be erected.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2)  A person who has caused any building, structure or thing to be erected contrary to this clause must, when directed by the Trust, immediately remove the building, structure or thing.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(3)  If a person fails to comply with any such direction, the Trust:

(a)  may cause the building, structure or thing to be removed to the care of the person to whom the direction was given, or

(b)  may impound the building, structure or thing.

(4)  Property that is impounded under this clause is taken to be impounded under the Impounding Act 1993, and is to be dealt with accordingly.

(5)  In this clause:

structure includes a tent, screen, awning or enclosure.

13 Hazardous or interfering behaviour

A person must not, within the trust land:

(a)  throw or project any stone or other missile except at a side show or ring display authorised by the Trust or in the course of, and as a normal incident of, an event or training for an event, or

(b)  do or say anything calculated to hinder or interfere with the proper progress of any event or the packing up or removal of equipment after an event, or

(c)  enter or mount any stage or performing area with the intention of hindering or interfering with a performance or the preparations for a performance.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

14 Other conduct prohibited

A person must not do any of the following within the trust land:

(a)  collect or attempt to collect money,

(b)  sell, hire, expose for sale or hire or solicit for sale or hire any service, article or thing,

(c)  distribute any article or thing for commercial or promotional purposes,

(d)  conduct, or cause or assist in the conduct of, an amusement, entertainment, instruction or performance, whether or not for money or other consideration,

(e)  organise, attend or participate in, or cause to be organised, any public meeting, function, demonstration or gathering,

(f)  display or distribute any advertisement, sign, bill, poster or other printed matter,

(g)  have or use video, photographic, broadcasting or recording equipment for commercial purposes,

(h)  ride any cycle on any grassed area,

(i)  ride any skateboard, roller skates or similar apparatus,

(j)  operate a motorised model aircraft, boat, car or similar thing,

(k)  operate any radio or other electronic device, or play any musical instrument, at a volume likely to cause inconvenience to any other person,

(l)  bathe, wade, wash or swim in any lake, pond, stream or ornamental water, or

(m)  play or practise golf, or

(n)  set off any firework (including lighting any flare).

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

Part 3 General

15 Directions relating to booths and bars

(1)  The Trust may give directions for the conduct of any booth, bar, stall or stand situated within the trust land.

(2)  A person conducting any such booth, bar, stall or stand must comply with a direction under this clause.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

16 Exclusion of public

(1)  The Trust may, by means of notices or barriers, exclude the public from any part of the trust land.

(2)  A person must not enter any part of the trust land from which the public has been so excluded.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

17 Removal of public

(1)  The Trust may direct a person to leave the trust land or a reserved area if the person is:

(a)  unlawfully within the trust land or reserved area, or

(b)  contravening any provision of this By-law, or

(c)  causing inconvenience to any member of the public who is lawfully and peaceably within the trust land or the reserved area.

(2)  A person must comply with a direction under this clause.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(3)  The Trust may remove from the trust land or from a reserved area any person who fails to comply with a direction under this clause.

18 Exercise of Trust’s powers

The Trust may authorise any trustee, any member of staff of the Trust, any police officer or any other person to exercise a power conferred on the Trust by this By-law, and the power may be exercised accordingly.

19 Hindering and obstructing

A person must not, on trust land, hinder or obstruct:

(a)  any person in the exercise of a power conferred on the person by or under this By-law, or

(b)  any contractor to the Trust in the performance of the contractor’s work.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

20 Certain acts and omissions not to be offences

(1)  A person does not commit an offence under this By-law if the act or omission giving rise to the offence was done or omitted:

(a)  by a trustee or a member of staff of the Trust in the exercise of his or her employment as such, or

(b)  in accordance with the conditions (whether express or implied) of a lease or licence granted by the Trust, or

(c)  under the direction or with the consent of the Trust.

(2)  The consent of the Trust referred to in this clause may be given generally or in a particular case.

21 Savings

Any act, matter or thing that, immediately before the repeal of the Parramatta Stadium Trust By-law 2005, had effect under that By-law continues to have effect under this By-law.