(1) The Trust shall have the following objects and may exercise any or all of
the following functions:
(a) the administration, care, control, management and
maintenance of the Opera House,
(b) the management and administration of the
Opera House as a theatre, concert hall and place of assembly to be used as a
place for the presentation of any of the branches of the musical, operatic,
dramatic, terpsichorean, visual or auditory arts or as a meeting place in
respect of matters of international, national or local significance,
(c) the
promotion of artistic taste and achievement in any of the branches of the arts
referred to in the foregoing provisions of this subsection,
(d) scientific
research into, and the encouragement of, new and improved forms of
entertainment and methods of presentation of entertainment.
(2) In order that
the Trust may attain any of its objects and effectively carry out any of its
functions, it shall have power to do all such things as it may deem incidental
or conducive to the profitable and effective carrying out thereof.
(3) The
Trust shall have in addition to any other powers conferred on it by this Act
the specific powers set out in Schedule 1.
(4) The mere enumeration of
specific powers in Schedule 1 or the conferring upon the Trust of other
specific powers by any other section of this Act shall not operate to limit
the general powers conferred upon the Trust by this section.
