New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HAWKESBURY RACECOURSE ACT 1996 - SECT 4

4 Status of racecourse

(1) The deed-poll or grant from the Crown, dated 27 July 1883, granting Hawkesbury Racecourse to Benjamin Richards, Andrew Town, Henry M’Quade, William Gosper, William Dargin, John Henry Crowley and Thomas Richards junior, is, to the extent that it applies to the Hawkesbury Racecourse, cancelled and revoked.

(2) The Hawkesbury Racecourse is declared to be land vested in the Crown that is dedicated under section 80 of the Crown Lands Act 1989 for the following public purposes:

(a) for use as a racecourse,

(b) for use as a training ground,

(c) for use as a sports ground,

(d) for any other form of public amusement or public purpose (whether or not related to sports) that the Governor has, by order published in the Gazette, declared to be a form of public amusement or public purpose for which the Racecourse or a specified part of the Racecourse is permitted to be used.

(3) Part 5 of the Crown Lands Act 1989 (Dedication and reservation of land), and such of the other provisions of that Act as are relevant to the operation of that Part, apply to the Hawkesbury Racecourse.

(4) Nothing in this section affects the operation of any lease of the Hawkesbury Racecourse that was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act.

(5) No attornment to the reserve trust by a lessee or sublessee from the former trustee is required.