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Sporting Venues Authorities
Amendment (Venues NSW) Bill 2011
No , 2011
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Sporting Venues Authorities Act 2008 and to repeal the
Parramatta Stadium Trust Act 1988, to constitute Venues NSW, to abolish existing
regional sporting venues authorities and the Parramatta Stadium Trust and to transfer
the assets and liabilities of those bodies to Venues NSW; and for other purposes.
Clause 1 Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Bill 2011
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts: 1
1 Name of Act 2
This Act is the Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) 3
Act 2011. 4
2 Commencement 5
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation. 6
3 Repeals 7
The following are repealed: 8
(a) Parramatta Stadium Trust Act 1988, 9
(b) Parramatta Stadium Trust By-law 2010. 10
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Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Bill 2011
Amendment of Sporting Venues Authorities Act 2008 No 65 Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendment of Sporting Venues 1
Authorities Act 2008 No 65 2
[1] Long title 3
Omit "to establish the Hunter Region Sporting Venues Authority; to repeal the 4
Sporting Venues Management Act 2002 and the Newcastle International 5
Sports Centre Act 1967;". 6
[2] Section 3 Definitions 7
Insert in alphabetical order in section 3 (1): 8
function includes a power, authority or duty, and exercise a 9
function includes perform a duty. 10
[3] Sections 8 and 20 11
Omit the sections. 12
[4] Section 14 Boards of management 13
Omit section 14 (1) and (2). Insert instead: 14
(1) Each regional sporting venues authority has a board of 15
management consisting of at least 7 and not more than 16
11 members appointed by the Minister. 17
(2) Of the members appointed by the Minister, one is, in and by the 18
instrument of appointment or another instrument made by the 19
Minister, to be appointed Chairperson of the board of 20
management. 21
[5] Section 14 (5) 22
Insert after section 14 (4): 23
(5) The regulations may provide for the circumstances in which the 24
functions of a board of management may be exercised by the 25
State Sporting Venues Authority or by some other person or body 26
prescribed by the regulations (whether or not to the exclusion of 27
the board of management). 28
[6] Section 21 Functions of regional sporting venues authorities 29
Insert after section 21 (1) (c): 30
(c1) to establish and manage community facilities and to 31
establish and manage facilities for community and 32
recreational purposes (whether or not on the authority's 33
land), 34
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Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Bill 2011
Schedule 1 Amendment of Sporting Venues Authorities Act 2008 No 65
[7] Section 21 (3) 1
Omit "subsection (1) (b) and (c)". Insert instead "subsection (1) (b)(c1)". 2
[8] Section 33A 3
Insert before section 34: 4
33A Advisory committees 5
(1) A sporting venues authority may establish advisory committees 6
to provide advice to the authority or to enable the authority to 7
exercise its functions. 8
(2) The Minister may also establish advisory committees to provide 9
advice to the Minister or to an authority or to enable an authority 10
to exercise its functions. 11
(3) Subject to any directions given by the sporting venues authority 12
or the Minister, the procedure of an advisory committee is to be 13
as determined by the committee. 14
(4) A member of an advisory committee established under this 15
section is entitled to be paid such remuneration and allowances 16
(if any) as the Minister may determine in respect of the member. 17
(5) An advisory committee established by the Minister may be 18
dissolved by the Minister only. 19
(6) An advisory committee established by a sporting venues 20
authority may be dissolved by the authority or by the Minister. 21
(7) The regulations may provide for the establishment, functions, 22
membership, procedure and dissolution of an advisory committee 23
and for the appointment, term of office and removal from office 24
of members of any such committee. 25
[9] Section 34 Use of Newcastle Showground land 26
Omit the definition of Authority from section 34 (5). Insert instead: 27
Authority means the sporting venues authority in which the 28
Showground land is vested. 29
[10] Section 37 Rangers 30
Omit "Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation" from section 37 (1). 31
Insert instead "Department of Education and Communities". 32
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Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Bill 2011
Amendment of Sporting Venues Authorities Act 2008 No 65 Schedule 1
[11] Section 40 Regulations 1
Insert ", including the imposition of conditions on any such admission" after 2
"part of it" in section 40 (1) (d). 3
[12] Section 40 (1) (e) 4
Omit the paragraph. Insert instead: 5
(e) the removal of persons from land or any part of land vested 6
in or managed by a sporting venues authority where those 7
persons commit offences, fail to comply with conditions of 8
entry or cause inconvenience to other persons, and 9
[13] Schedule 1 Regional sporting venues authorities 10
Omit "Hunter Region Sporting Venues Authority" and "Illawarra Venues 11
Authority". 12
Insert instead "Venues NSW". 13
[14] Schedule 2 Members and procedure of boards of management 14
Omit "4 years" from clause 2. Insert instead "3 years". 15
[15] Schedule 5 Savings, transitional and other provisions 16
Insert at the end of clause 1 (1): 17
Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Act 2011 18
[16] Schedule 5, Part 4 19
Insert after Part 3: 20
Part 4 Provisions consequent on enactment of 21
Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment 22
(Venues NSW) Act 2011 23
14 Dissolution of Parramatta Stadium Trust 24
(1) The Parramatta Stadium Trust is dissolved. 25
(2) Each person who was a member of the Trust immediately before 26
its dissolution ceases to hold office as such. No compensation is 27
payable to any such person as the result of the operation of this 28
subclause. 29
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Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Bill 2011
Schedule 1 Amendment of Sporting Venues Authorities Act 2008 No 65
15 Dissolution of regional sporting venues authorities 1
(1) Hunter Region Sporting Venues Authority and Illawarra Venues 2
Authority are dissolved. 3
(2) Each person who was a member of a board of management for 4
either of those regional sporting venues authorities immediately 5
before its dissolution ceases to hold office as such. No 6
compensation is payable to any such person as the result of the 7
operation of this subclause. 8
16 Transfer of assets, rights and liabilities 9
(1) In this clause: 10
former body means the following: 11
(a) Hunter Region Sporting Venues Authority, 12
(b) Illawarra Venues Authority, 13
(c) Parramatta Stadium Trust. 14
(2) On the date of commencement of this clause, the following 15
provisions have effect: 16
(a) the assets of each former body vest in Venues NSW by 17
virtue of this clause and without the need for any 18
conveyance, transfer, assignment or assurance, 19
(b) the rights and liabilities of each former body become by 20
virtue of this clause the rights and liabilities of Venues 21
NSW, 22
(c) all proceedings relating to those assets, rights or liabilities 23
commenced before that date by or on behalf of, or against, 24
each former body and pending immediately before the 25
transfer are taken to be proceedings pending by or against 26
Venues NSW, 27
(d) any act, matter or thing done or omitted to be done in 28
relation to those assets, rights or liabilities before that date 29
by, to or in respect of each former body is (to the extent to 30
which that act, matter or thing has any force or effect) 31
taken to have been done or omitted by, to or in respect of 32
Venues NSW, 33
(e) Venues NSW has all the entitlements and obligations of 34
each former body in relation to those assets, rights and 35
liabilities that the former body would have had but for this 36
clause, whether or not the entitlements and obligations 37
were actual or potential on the commencement of this 38
clause, 39
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Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Bill 2011
Amendment of Sporting Venues Authorities Act 2008 No 65 Schedule 1
(f) a reference in any Act, in any instrument made under any 1
Act or in any document of any kind to any former body or 2
a predecessor of any former body is (to the extent that it 3
relates to those assets, rights or liabilities but subject to the 4
regulations) to be read as, or as including, a reference to 5
Venues NSW. 6
(3) The operation of this clause is not to be regarded: 7
(a) as a breach of contract or confidence or otherwise as a civil 8
wrong, or 9
(b) as a breach of any contractual provision prohibiting, 10
restricting or regulating the assignment or transfer of 11
assets, rights or liabilities, or 12
(c) as giving rise to any remedy by a party to an instrument, or 13
as causing or permitting the termination of any instrument, 14
because of a change in the beneficial or legal ownership of 15
any asset, right or liability, or 16
(d) as an event of default under any contract or other 17
instrument. 18
(4) No attornment to the transferee by a lessee from any former body 19
is required. 20
(5) For all purposes, a former body is taken to have had a fee simple, 21
immediately before the commencement of this clause, in land in 22
respect of which it was a reserve trust under the Crown Lands Act 23
1989 immediately before that commencement. 24
(6) Subclause (5) has effect despite any provision of the Crown 25
Lands Act 1989 and, in particular, section 100 of that Act. 26
(7) Land of a former body transferred by operation of this clause is 27
transferred free of any reservation, grant or dedication to which 28
the land was subject under any Act or law. 29
17 Confirmation of vesting 30
(1) The Minister may, by notice in writing, confirm a transfer of 31
particular assets, rights or liabilities by operation of this Part. 32
(2) Such a notice is conclusive evidence of that transfer. 33
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Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Bill 2011
Schedule 1 Amendment of Sporting Venues Authorities Act 2008 No 65
18 Local Venues Councils 1
(1) The following advisory committees are taken to be established by 2
the Minister under section 33A (2) with the following functions: 3
(a) Hunter Local Venues Council--to provide advice to 4
Venues NSW in relation to the authority's sporting venues 5
in the Hunter Region, 6
(b) Illawarra Local Venues Council--to provide advice to 7
Venues NSW in relation to the authority's sporting venues 8
in the Illawarra Region, 9
(c) Western Sydney Local Venues Council--to provide 10
advice to Venues NSW in relation to the authority's 11
sporting venues in Western Sydney. 12
(2) The Minister is, under section 33A, to appoint at least 3 and no 13
more than 7 members to each of these committees within 14
3 months after the commencement of this clause. 15
(3) Section 33A (including section 33A (5)) applies to a committee 16
established under this clause in the same way as it applies to a 17
committee established under that section. 18
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