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WAGGA WAGGA RACECOURSE BILL 1993 (No. 2)
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The objects of this Bill are:
· to provide for Wagga Wagga Racecourse to be continued as a public reserve for
horse racing and other public purposes;
· to confirm the status of the existing reserve trust;
· to facilitate the incorporation of the existing Murrumbidgee Turf Club and to
transfer the assets of that Club to the body corporate resulting from that
incorporation; and
· to consequentially repeal the Murrumbidgee Turf Club Act 1876.
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the proposed Act to commence on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
Clause 3 defines certain expressions used in the proposed Act. The expressions
defined are "assets", "liabilities", "rights", "the former Club", "the former trustee",
"the incorporated Club" and "Wagga Wagga Racecourse',.
Clause 4 clarifies the current status of the land comprising the Wagga Wagga
Racecourse. The 1866 deed-poll or grant of the land from the Crown to certain persons
will, to the extent that it applies to the Wagga Wagga Racecourse, be revoked and the
land is to be Crown land dedicated for the following purposes:
· use as a racecourse for holding horse races;
· use as a training ground where race horses can be trained;
· use as a cricket ground or for any other form of sporting or recreational activity;
· use for any other public amusement or public purpose declared by the
Governor-in-Council.
Clause 5 continues the reserve trust established under the Crown Lands Act 1989 as
trustee of the Wagga Wagga Racecourse for the purposes of that Act. The reserve trust is
to have the corporate name of "Wagga Wagga Racecourse Reserve Trust". The
appointment of the members of the existing trust board is confirmed.
Clause 6 makes it clear that nothing in the Murrumbidgee Turf Club Act 1876
prevents the members of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club from becoming incorporated as a
body corporate under any law that enables persons to form a body corporate. As soon as
practicable after the Club has become incorporated, the Minister will be required to
publish in the Gazette a notice to the effect that the body corporate resulting from the
incorporation is the incorporated Murrumbidgee Turf Club.
Clause 7 provides that, on the publication in the Gazette of the notice referred to in
proposed section 6, the assets, rights and liabilities of the former Club (including the
assets currently held by the chairman of the Club on its behalf) are to vest in the
incorporated Club.
Clause 8 enables the Governor to make a proclamation repealing the Murrumbidgee
Turf Club Act 1876 at any time on or after the publication in the Gazette of the
certificate of the Minister referred to in proposed section 6.
Clause 9 empowers the Governor to make regulations for the purposes of the
proposed Act, including regulations of a savings or transitional nature.
Schedule 1 contains a description of the land comprising the Wagga Wagga
Racecourse.