New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MAJOR EVENTS ACT 2009 - SECT 59

59 Illegal car parks

(1) This section applies to land that is within 5 kilometres of any major event venue or facility.

(2) During the parking control period, a person must not use land to which this section applies for the purpose of a car park (whether or not for fee or reward) if the use of the land for that purpose by the person is not lawful under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units in the case of an individual and 250 penalty units in the case of a corporation and, in the case of a continuing offence by an individual or corporation, 20 penalty units for each day the offence continues.

(3) This section does not limit the operation of any other Act that enables proceedings to be taken in respect of the unlawful use of land.

(4) In this section, "parking control period" means the period prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.

(5) A regulation for the purposes of the definition of "parking control period" in subsection (4) that extends a parking control period may be made before or during that period.