Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) A person shall not –
(a) enter the reserved area of a sports ground without lawful excuse; or
(b) remain on the reserved area of a sports ground after having been requested to leave that area by a police officer or some person having authority to require him to leave that area.
(1AA) A person who contravenes a provision of subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 3 penalty units or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months.
(1A) Subject to subsection (1B), a police officer may arrest without warrant any person who fails to leave the reserved area of a sports ground –
when requested to do so by that police officer.(a) where a sport is being played or a game is being conducted;
(b) where a sport is to be played or a game is to be conducted; or
(c) where a sport has been played or a game has been conducted –
(1B) A police officer shall not exercise the power of arrest referred to in subsection (1) unless he reasonably believes –
(a) that the sport being played, or the game being conducted, on the reserved area of the sports ground is or will be interrupted or the use of that area by persons participating or having participated in the sport or game is or will be interfered with or affected; or
(b) that the commencement of the sport to be played, or the game to be conducted, on that area will be delayed.
(2) In this section –
"reserved area" means so much of a sports ground as is set apart or reserved for the playing of a game or the conducting of a sport;
"sports ground" means a public place, not wholly contained within a building, to which the public are admitted, whether on payment or otherwise, to view a game or sport played or conducted on the reserved area of that sports ground.