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SPORTS LEGISLATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The object of this Bill is to amend the Acts relating to the Trusts listed below, to
enable each Trust to develop and manage sporting facilities which are not located on
land that the Trust owns.
The Trusts concerned are:
Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust
State Sports Centre Trust
Parramatta Stadium Trust
The Bill also amends the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Act 1978 to allow the
Trust to acquire land for purposes unconnected with land it already owns.
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act.
Clause 3 gives effect to Schedule 1 which contains the amendments to the Sydney
Cricket and Sports Ground Act 1978.
Clause 4 gives effect to Schedule 2 which contains the amendments to the State
Sports Centre Trust Act 1984.
Clause 5 gives effect to Schedule 3 which contains the amendments to the
Parramatta Stadium Trust Act 1984.
SCHEDULES 1, 2 and 3--AMENDMENT OF SPORTS LEGISLATION
Currently, each Trust can exercise its powers only in relation to land which is vested
in it. The proposed Act will give the Trusts certain powers in relation to sporting
facilities on new land. Subject to Ministerial consent, the Trusts will have power to
manage as well as develop sporting facilities, and to do all things necessary or
convenient to exercise these functions, without having to acquire any land comprising
the sporting facility.
Amendments to the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Act 1978 will remove the
restriction that the only lands that the Trust can acquire are lands connected with the
lands vested in the Trust. Also, a new section will provide that the Trust may carry out
work under section 16 of the Act in connection with the improvement, development and
maintenance of a sporting facility, and may manage a sporting facility, on land which is
not trust land, with the approval of the Minister. In its exercise of these functions, the
Trust may do all such things it considers to be necessary or convenient.
Amendments to the State Sports Centre Trust Act 1984 and the Parramatta Stadium
Trust Act 1988 insert in each Act an additional object of each Trust to
and
manage a sporting facility on land which is not trust land. In addition, a new section in
each Act will provide that the Trust may develop and manage a sporting facility on land
which is not trust land, with the approval of the Minister, and in exercise of these
functions, do all such things it considers to be necessary or convenient.