New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE SPORTS CENTRE TRUST ACT 1984 - SECT 7

7 Powers of the Trust

(1) The Trust may do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with, or as incidental to, the attainment or carrying out of its objects.

(1A) The Trust cannot employ any staff.

Note: Staff may be employed under Chapter 1A of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 in the Government Service to enable the Trust to exercise its functions.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) and any other provision of this Act by which a power is conferred on the Trust, the Trust has power:

(a) to use or authorise the use of the whole or any part of the trust property for activities of a sporting, recreational, educational or cultural nature or for the purposes of public entertainment or any public purpose approved by the Minister,

(b) to provide or permit other persons to provide refreshments for consumption by persons using or visiting the trust land and to apply for, hold and dispose of any licence, permit or other authority required in connection with the provision of those refreshments,

(c) to acquire, hold and, subject to section 18, dispose of all kinds of personal property required for or in connection with the use or operation of the trust land,

(d) to carry out or arrange to be carried out work in connection with the maintenance, development and improvement of the trust land and, in particular, for the purpose of making the trust land suitable for the activities referred to in paragraph (a),

(e) to promote and provide exhibits, lectures, films, publications and other types of instruction relating to sporting and recreational activities,

(f) subject to the regulations, to charge and receive fees or other sums for, or in connection with, the use of or admission to any facility established or provided on the trust land or any service provided, article sold, permission given or licence granted by or on behalf of the Trust,

(g) with the approval of the Minister and the Minister administering or responsible for the government department or statutory authority concerned, to make use of any plant, machinery or equipment that is used in that department or by that authority, and

(h) to enter into any contract or arrangement with any person for the purpose of attaining or carrying out the objects of the Trust.

(3) In subsection (2) (d), the reference to work includes:

(a) the redesign and reconstruction of an area of the trust land to enable any particular sporting or recreational activity to be performed there,

(b) the construction, reconstruction or demolition of any building or structure on the trust land, and

(c) the provision of accommodation, either seating or standing or both, for persons using or visiting the trust land.

(4) The Trust may agree to any condition, not inconsistent with the objects of the Trust, being imposed on the acquisition of any property by the Trust.

(5) The Trust may borrow money for the purpose of enabling it to exercise its functions, but only in accordance with the Public Authorities (Financial Arrangements) Act 1987 .

(6) The Trust may acquire by gift, bequest or devise any property for any of the purposes of this Act and the Trust may agree to and carry out the conditions of the gift, bequest or devise.

(7) Where the Trust acquires property in accordance with subsection (6), the Trust may retain the property in the form in which it is acquired, subject to any condition agreed to by the Trust in relation to the property.

(8) The rule of law against remoteness of vesting does not apply to a condition to which the Trust has agreed under subsection (6).

(9) The Stamp Duties Act 1920 does not apply to or in respect of a gift, bequest or devise made to the Trust.