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New South Wales
Major Events Bill 2009
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Part 1 Preliminary
1 Name of Act 2
2 Commencement 2
3 Objects of Act 2
4 Definitions 3
Part 2 Major events
5 Declaration of major event 5
6 Designation of responsible authority 6
7 Appointment of advisory committees 6
Part 3 Major event authorities
8 Constitution of major event authorities 7
9 Management of authorities 7
10 Major event authority boards 7
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11 Chief executives of major event authorities 8
12 Dissolution, amalgamation and change of name and
governance of major event authorities 8
Part 4 Facilitation of major events
Division 1 Application of Part
13 Provisions of Part apply only if regulations provide 9
Division 2 Co-ordination and co-operation of government
agencies
14 Obligations of government agencies 9
15 Powers of government agencies 9
16 Minister may direct government agencies to co-operate 10
17 SES, RFS and others may assist in the provision of
government services for major events 10
18 Dispute resolution 10
Division 3 Management of roads and traffic
Subdivision 1 Transport areas
19 Declaration of transport areas 11
20 Government agencies to comply with responsible
authority's directions 11
Subdivision 2 Road transport legislation
21 Definitions--Subdivision 2 12
22 Relationship with road transport legislation 12
23 Major event lane signs 13
24 Use of lanes 13
25 Major event lane permits 13
26 Road closures--integrated road and transport services 14
27 Road closures--major events 14
28 Road closures--short periods 15
29 Road closure to be for shortest possible period 16
30 Offences relating to road closures 16
31 Effect of road closure 17
32 Removal of unattended motor vehicles--generally 17
33 Removal of unattended motor vehicles--breach of
parking restrictions 17
34 Declarations under sections 32 and 33 18
35 Removal of unattended motor vehicles--emergencies 18
36 Penalty notices 18
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Division 4 Commercial and airspace controls
37 Control of sale and distribution of articles in certain public
places 18
38 Control of airspace 20
39 Prohibition of certain advertising on buildings and
structures 21
40 Prohibition of certain aerial advertising 23
41 Commercial and other activities 24
42 Use of official title and official insignia 25
Division 5 Safety and crowd management at major events
43 Crowd management 26
44 Personal conduct 27
45 Request to undergo search as condition of entry to major
event venue or facility 28
46 Directions to leave 29
47 Prohibited entry to playing fields 30
48 Responsible authority may ban persons for specified
period 30
49 Taking photographs of certain persons 30
Division 6 Environmental Planning and Assessment
Act 1979
50 Relationship with Environmental Planning and
Assessment Act 1979 31
51 Modification of environmental planning instruments and
development consents 31
Division 7 Local Government Act 1993
52 Relationship with Local Government Act 1993 32
53 Modification of certain approvals 33
54 Use of community land 33
55 Authorised persons 34
Division 8 Protection of the Environment Operations
Act 1997
56 Relationship with Protection of the Environment
Operations Act 1997 34
57 Modification of environmental impacts 34
58 Effect of declaration 35
Division 9 Miscellaneous
59 Illegal car parks 36
60 Authorisations for section 51 of the Trade Practices Act
1974 (Cth) and Competition Code 36
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61 No liability in nuisance 37
62 Compensation not payable in respect of major
event-related matters 37
63 Civil proceedings to restrain breaches of this Act and
certain agreements 38
Part 5 Miscellaneous
64 Proceedings for offences 40
65 Effect of this Act on contracts, instruments and
related matters 40
66 Exclusion of personal liability 41
67 Delegation of Minister's functions 41
68 Delegation of responsible authority's functions 41
69 Recovery of fees and charges 42
70 Identification cards 42
71 Enforcement 43
72 Regulations 43
73 Penalty notices 43
74 Offences by corporations 44
75 Review of Act 45
Schedule 1 Constitution and procedure of board governed
major event authorities 46
Schedule 2 Dissolutions, amalgamations and changes of
name or nature of governance of major event
authorities 51
Schedule 3 Savings, transitional and other provisions 56
Schedule 4 Amendment of Sporting Venues (Invasions)
Act 2003 No 44 57
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I certify that this public bill, which originated in the Legislative Assembly, has
finally passed the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of New
South Wales.
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
Legislative Assembly,
Sydney, , 2009
New South Wales
Major Events Bill 2009
Act No , 2009
An Act to facilitate the holding and conduct of major events in New South Wales;
and for other purposes.
I have examined this bill and find it to correspond in all respects with the bill as
finally passed by both Houses.
Assistant Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
Clause 1 Major Events Bill 2009
Part 1 Preliminary
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Major Events Act 2009.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act.
3 Objects of Act
The objects of this Act are as follows:
(a) to attract, support and facilitate the holding and conduct of major
events in New South Wales, in particular, events that are
anticipated to be of a large scale with a significant number of
participants or spectators (whether of a sporting, cultural or other
nature),
(b) to increase the benefits flowing from major events to the people
of New South Wales,
(c) to promote the safety and enjoyment of participants and
spectators at major events,
(d) to prevent unauthorised commercial exploitation of major events
at the expense of event organisers and sponsors,
(e) to enable authorities that are to manage, co-ordinate or regulate
major events to be established or designated by regulation,
(f) to make provision for the following matters in relation to major
events:
(i) traffic control and the co-ordination of transport and
parking,
(ii) the regulation of commercial exploitation of the events,
including the prevention of ambush marketing and
unauthorised use of official titles and insignia,
(iii) safety and crowd management,
(g) to ensure that government agencies are authorised to facilitate
and support the holding and conduct of major events.
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4 Definitions
(1) In this Act:
board governed authority means a major event authority that is
declared by a regulation under section 8 (2) (b) to be an authority
governed by a board.
chief executive means a chief executive of a major event authority
appointed under section 11.
chief executive governed authority means a major event authority that
is declared by a regulation to be an authority governed by a chief
executive.
exercise a function includes perform a duty.
function includes a power, authority or duty.
government agency means:
(a) a public authority constituted by or under an Act, or
(b) a NSW Government agency, or
(c) a Division of the Government Service, or
(d) a local council, or
(e) a State owned corporation,
but does not include the NSW Police Force.
major event means an event that is declared under Part 2 to be a major
event.
major event authority means a major event authority constituted under
Part 3.
major event period, in relation to a major event, means the period
specified by a regulation under section 5 for which the declaration of the
major event is in force.
major event venue or facility--see subsection (2).
public place means a public place within the meaning of the Law
Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002, and includes a
school within the meaning of that Act.
responsible authority, in relation to a major event, means the person or
body designated as the responsible authority for the major event under
Part 2.
road and transport plan means a plan prepared by a responsible
authority for a major event that sets out policies and procedures to be
followed in relation to the provision of integrated road and transport
services in relation to the major event.
RTA means the Roads and Traffic Authority constituted under the
Transport Administration Act 1988.
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the State includes the Crown in right of the State and the Government
of the State.
traffic includes vehicular traffic, pedestrian traffic, cyclist traffic, traffic
in or on the water and all other kinds of traffic.
transport area means a transport area declared under Division 3 of
Part 4.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a major event venue or facility is:
(a) any of the following that have been declared to be a major event
venue or facility by the Minister by order published in the
Gazette:
(i) a venue or facility used for the conduct of a major event,
(ii) a media centre or other communications facility for the
media for a major event,
(iii) lodgings and other accommodation for persons attending a
major event,
(iv) transport and other physical infrastructure associated with
a major event,
(v) any other development (within the meaning of the
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979)
determined by the Minister to be required for, or is
associated with, a major event, and
(b) any public place, or any part of a public place, that is within
50 metres of a major event venue or facility, being a public place,
or part of a public place, that is specified or described in an order
of the Minister published in the Gazette, and
(c) any place prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this
subsection,
but is only such a venue or facility during the relevant major event
period.
(3) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.
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Part 2 Major events
5 Declaration of major event
(1) The regulations may declare an event to be a major event.
(2) The Minister may recommend the making of a regulation under
subsection (1) only if the Minister is of the opinion that:
(a) it is in the public interest to make the regulation, and
(b) the event in respect of which the regulation is to be made is a
major event at an international, national or State level.
(3) Without limiting any other matters the Minister may consider, the
Minister may have regard to the following matters before determining
whether to recommend the making of a regulation under subsection (1):
(a) the potential size of the event,
(b) the likely number of spectators for the event,
(c) the possible media coverage of the event,
(d) the possible economic impact of the event,
(e) the potential contribution to New South Wales's international
profile as a host of major events,
(f) the commercial arrangements for the event, if known,
(g) the views of the event organiser, including the organiser's event
management experience and expertise,
(h) possible factors affecting the operational organisation of the
event, such as the following:
(i) preparation of road and transport plans,
(ii) the need for emergency management plans,
(iii) the need for security plans and consultation with police
and emergency services,
(i) if known, the views of local councils directly affected by the
event in relation to the arrangements made or to be made for the
event,
(j) the possible need for consultation and agreements to be made
between the event organiser and affected local councils in
relation to the event, including any agreements about the
restoration of event venues and facilities.
(4) A regulation made under subsection (1) must:
(a) describe the event, and
(b) specify the period for which the declaration of the major event is
in force (the major event period), and
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(c) declare which provisions of Part 4 (if any) apply in relation to the
event and specify the period (or periods) that those provisions so
apply.
(5) A regulation made under this section may be amended by another
regulation.
(6) The regulations may not declare an industrial or political demonstration
or protest to be a major event.
6 Designation of responsible authority
A regulation made under section 5 (1) must designate one of the
following as the responsible authority for the major event:
(a) a major event authority or other government agency,
(b) a public official (within the meaning of the Protected Disclosures
Act 1994).
7 Appointment of advisory committees
(1) The responsible authority for a major event may appoint such advisory
committees as the responsible authority considers appropriate for the
purposes of advising the responsible authority for the purposes of this
Act.
(2) An advisory committee has such functions as the responsible authority
may from time to time determine in writing in respect of it.
(3) An advisory committee consists of such committee members appointed
by the responsible authority as the responsible authority thinks fit.
(4) An advisory committee member holds office for such period as is
specified in the instrument of appointment of the committee member,
but any such appointment may be terminated by the responsible
authority at any time.
(5) One of the advisory committee members, in and by the instrument by
which the committee member is appointed or another instrument made
by the responsible authority, is to be appointed as chairperson of the
committee.
(6) An advisory committee member is entitled to be paid such fees and
allowances (if any) as the Minister may determine, from time to time, in
respect of the committee member.
(7) Subject to the regulations and any directions of the responsible
authority, the procedure of an advisory committee appointed under this
section is to be as determined by the advisory committee.
(8) The responsible authority may dissolve an advisory committee
appointed under this section.
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Major event authorities Part 3
Part 3 Major event authorities
8 Constitution of major event authorities
(1) The regulations may establish a corporation and constitute the
corporation as a major event authority for the purposes of a specified
major event.
(2) Such a regulation must:
(a) specify a corporate name for the major event authority, and
(b) declare whether the authority is a chief executive governed
authority or a board governed authority, and
(c) set out the functions of the authority in relation to the major
event.
(3) A major event authority is a NSW Government agency.
9 Management of authorities
(1) The affairs of a major event authority are to be managed and controlled
by:
(a) if the authority is a chief executive governed authority--the chief
executive of the authority, or
(b) if the authority is a board governed authority--the chief
executive, subject to and in accordance with any directions given
to the chief executive by the board of the authority.
(2) A major event authority is subject to the control and direction of the
Minister in the exercise of its functions.
10 Major event authority boards
(1) There is constituted a major event authority board for each board
governed authority.
(2) A major event authority board is to be called the "[name of board
governed authority] Board".
(3) The members of a board of a major event authority are to be appointed
by the Minister.
(4) The regulations are to determine the number of the members of the
board of a major event authority and the qualifications (if any) those
members must have.
(5) Schedule 1 contains provisions relating to board governed authorities.
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11 Chief executives of major event authorities
(1) The Minister is to appoint a chief executive for each major event
authority.
(2) If the major event authority is a board governed authority, the chief
executive may be represented at any meeting of the board by a person
nominated for the time being by the chief executive. In representing the
chief executive, the person nominated has and may exercise the same
functions as the chief executive has at such a meeting (including voting
rights), and is taken to be the chief executive.
(3) If the major event authority is a chief executive governed authority,
except when making a recommendation to the Minister, the chief
executive is, in the exercise of his or her functions, subject to the control
and direction of the Minister.
(4) Any act, matter or thing done in the name of, or on behalf of, the major
event authority by the chief executive of that major event authority is
taken to have been done by the major event authority.
(5) The employment of a chief executive appointed by the Minister under
subsection (1) is subject to Part 3.1 of the Public Sector Employment
and Management Act 2002, but is not subject to Chapter 1A or 2 of that
Act.
12 Dissolution, amalgamation and change of name and governance of
major event authorities
(1) The regulations may:
(a) dissolve a major event authority, or
(b) change the name of a major event authority, or
(c) change the nature of governance of a major event authority:
(i) from board governed to chief executive governed, or
(ii) from chief executive governed to board governed, or
(d) amalgamate 2 or more major event authorities.
(2) Schedule 2 contains provisions relating to dissolutions, changes and
amalgamations made under this section.
(3) A regulation under subsection (1) (d) that amalgamates 2 or more major
event authorities must declare whether the amalgamated authority is a
chief executive governed authority or a board governed authority.
(4) A regulation under this section may contain provisions, not inconsistent
with the provisions of or made under Schedule 2, of a savings and
transitional nature consequent on the making of the regulation.
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Part 4 Facilitation of major events
Division 1 Application of Part
13 Provisions of Part apply only if regulations provide
(1) A provision of this Part does not apply in relation to a major event
unless a regulation declares that it applies.
(2) A provision of this Part applies only:
(a) during the relevant major event period, or
(b) if a shorter period is prescribed by the regulations in relation to
the provision--during that shorter period.
Division 2 Co-ordination and co-operation of government
agencies
14 Obligations of government agencies
A government agency has the following obligations in respect of a
major event:
(a) to co-operate with the responsible authority for the major event
in the exercise of the responsible authority's functions, including
complying with any reasonable request of the responsible
authority for information to enable the responsible authority to
exercise its functions,
(b) to comply with the responsible authority's road and transport
plan for the major event in respect of which it has received
notification by the responsible authority,
(c) to provide resources and assistance in accordance with any
request of the responsible authority that is authorised by or under
this Act,
(d) to notify the responsible authority of any proposed exercise of the
agency's functions that may impact adversely on the exercise of
the responsible authority's functions.
15 Powers of government agencies
Despite the provisions of any other Act or law, a government agency is:
(a) authorised to exercise any of its functions in order to comply with
a request, direction or decision of a responsible authority made or
given under this Act, and
(b) authorised and empowered to enter into agreements for the
purposes of this Act with a responsible authority and may do or
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suffer anything necessary or expedient for carrying any such
agreement into effect.
16 Minister may direct government agencies to co-operate
(1) The Minister may, by notice in writing given to a prescribed
government agency, direct the agency to comply with a request,
direction or decision of a responsible authority for a major event made
or given under this Act.
(2) In this section, prescribed government agency means a government
agency prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.
17 SES, RFS and others may assist in the provision of government services
for major events
(1) The State Emergency Service, the NSW Rural Fire Service and any
other person or body prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of
this section have the function of assisting the responsible authority in
the delivery of services for the major event concerned, including (but
not limited to) the following:
(a) crowd management services and access control services for
venues or facilities,
(b) traffic or pedestrian control.
(2) The functions referred to in subsection (1) are in addition to any
functions conferred or imposed on the State Emergency Service, the
NSW Rural Fire Service or other person or body by or under any other
Act or law.
(3) Nothing in this section requires the State Emergency Service or the
NSW Rural Fire Service, or any member of those Services, to undertake
any task or activity without the consent of the Commissioner of the
State Emergency Service or the Commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire
Service (as the case may be).
(4) The Security Industry Act 1997 does not apply to or in respect of any
person who is carrying out functions under this section.
18 Dispute resolution
(1) If there is a dispute between the responsible authority for a major event
and a government agency concerning the operation of any provision of
this Act and the parties have after reasonable efforts been unable to
resolve the dispute themselves, either party may request a review of the
matter by the responsible Ministers (namely, the Minister responsible
for the responsible authority and the Minister responsible for the
government agency concerned).
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(2) If the same Minister is responsible for both the responsible authority
and the government agency concerned, the review is to be by that
Minister.
(3) If the dispute is not resolved by the responsible Ministers or Minister,
the dispute is to be referred to the Premier.
(4) The responsible authority and the government agency concerned are to
give effect to any decision of the responsible Ministers, Minister or the
Premier in resolution of the dispute.
(5) A reference in this section to the Minister responsible for a government
agency is, in the case of a government agency that is a local council, a
reference to the Minister administering the Local Government Act 1993.
Division 3 Management of roads and traffic
Subdivision 1 Transport areas
19 Declaration of transport areas
(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare an area
specified in the order to be a transport area.
(2) The Minister may make an order under this section only if the Minister
is satisfied that the order is required to enable integrated road and
transport services to be provided for a major event.
(3) As soon as practicable after making an order under this section, the
Minister is to cause a copy of the order to be given to the Commissioner
of Police and any government agency that has any of the functions
referred to in section 20 (1) in the transport area concerned.
(4) An order under this section takes effect on the day the order is published
in the Gazette or on a later day specified in the order.
(5) An order under this section remains in force for the period specified in
the order.
20 Government agencies to comply with responsible authority's directions
(1) A responsible authority for a major event may direct a government
agency to exercise in a particular way any of the following functions
that the government agency has in a transport area:
(a) any function relating to the provision of transport,
(b) any function relating to the regulation or movement of traffic,
(c) any function relating to the provision, regulation or prohibition of
parking,
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(d) any function that might impact on any of the functions of a
government agency referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).
(2) A government agency is to comply, as far as is reasonably possible, with
a direction given to it under this section.
Subdivision 2 Road transport legislation
21 Definitions--Subdivision 2
(1) In this Subdivision:
major event lane--see section 24 (3).
private road means an area that is not open to or used by the public and
is developed for, or has as one of its main uses, the driving or riding of
motor vehicles.
road has the same meaning as in the Road Rules 2008.
road transport legislation has the same meaning as in the Road
Transport (General) Act 2005.
(2) Words and expressions used in this Subdivision that are defined in the
road transport legislation have the same meanings as in that legislation.
22 Relationship with road transport legislation
(1) This Subdivision is to be construed with, and as if it formed part of, the
road transport legislation.
(2) However, unless otherwise specified, in this Subdivision:
(a) references to provisions are references to provisions of this Act,
and
(b) references to this Act are references to the Major Events Act
2009.
(3) In the event of an inconsistency between this Subdivision and the road
transport legislation, this Subdivision prevails to the extent of the
inconsistency.
(4) The provisions of this Subdivision and section 62 (Compensation not
payable in respect of major event-related matters) have effect despite
Part 2.1 of the Road Transport (General) Act 2005.
(5) For the avoidance of doubt, section 201 (Supplying police officer's
details and giving warnings) of the Law Enforcement (Powers and
Responsibilities) Act 2002 does not apply to the exercise of a power that
is conferred by this Subdivision.
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23 Major event lane signs
(1) A sign that is a reasonable likeness (within the meaning of rule 316 (4)
of the Road Rules 2008) of the diagram prescribed by the regulations
under the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999 as
a major event lane sign is a major event lane sign for the purposes of this
Subdivision.
(2) A sign that is a reasonable likeness (within the meaning of rule 316 (4)
of the Road Rules 2008) of the diagram prescribed by the regulations
under the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999 as
an end major event lane sign is an end major event lane sign for the
purposes of this Subdivision.
(3) A sign to which this section applies is a prescribed traffic control device
for the purposes of Part 4 of the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic
Management) Act 1999.
24 Use of lanes
(1) A driver must not drive, during a major event period, in a major event
lane unless:
(a) the driver is driving:
(i) a vehicle that displays, in accordance with instructions
given by the responsible authority, a permit issued by the
responsible authority for the major event to drive the
vehicle in the major event lane, or
(ii) a public bus or taxi, or
(iii) a police vehicle or an emergency vehicle, or
(b) the driver is driving in the major event lane in the same
circumstances as a driver is permitted to drive in a transit lane
under rule 158 of the Road Rules 2008.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
(2) A person may ride a bicycle in a major event lane.
(3) A major event lane is a marked lane, or part of a marked lane:
(a) beginning at a major event lane sign, and
(b) ending at an end major event lane sign.
25 Major event lane permits
(1) The responsible authority for a major event may issue a permit to a
person to authorise the person to drive a vehicle (or be driven in a
vehicle) in a major event lane (a major event lane permit).
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(2) A police officer may direct the person in charge of a vehicle that is
displaying a major event lane permit (or a document that purports to be
such a permit) in a major event lane to remove the permit or document
from the vehicle and give it to the officer.
(3) A police officer to whom such a permit or document is given may do
any one or more of the following:
(a) inspect the permit or document,
(b) request the person purporting to be the holder of the permit to
identify himself or herself,
(c) request and inspect the identification of that person for the
purpose of confirming that person's identity,
(d) if the officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that:
(i) a permit given to the officer is not being used by the holder
of the permit, or
(ii) a document purporting to be a permit is not a permit,
confiscate the permit or document.
(4) A person to whom a direction is given under subsection (2) must
immediately comply with that direction.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
26 Road closures--integrated road and transport services
(1) This section applies to roads within transport areas.
(2) The RTA may, at the direction of the responsible authority for a major
event, close a road for any length of time during the major event period
for the purpose of providing integrated road and transport services for
the major event.
(3) A road cannot be closed under this section unless the RTA has, not less
than 7 days before the proposed closure, given public notice of the
proposed closure by a notice published in a newspaper circulating
generally in New South Wales.
27 Road closures--major events
(1) This section applies to roads whether or not the roads are within a
transport area.
(2) The responsible authority for a major event may prepare a traffic
management plan, or plans, for all roads on which activities associated
with a major event are to be conducted.
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(3) The responsible authority may, in accordance with a traffic
management plan:
(a) control and regulate traffic in any manner and for any purpose,
and
(b) temporarily close a road, or part of a road, at any time and for any
purpose.
(4) A traffic management plan may, with the consent of the owner or
occupier of a private road, apply to a private road in the same way as it
applies to roads that are not private roads, subject to subsection (5).
(5) A traffic management plan cannot authorise the closure of a private road
unless the owner or occupier of the private road has consented to the
closure. Such a consent may be given generally or in a particular case
or class of cases.
(6) A traffic management plan is to be prepared in consultation with the
RTA and does not have effect unless and until the RTA has consented
in writing to the plan.
(7) The consent of the RTA under subsection (6) is taken to be a consent for
the purposes of the Roads Act 1993 and the road transport legislation in
so far as the consent of the RTA would, but for this subsection, be
required under that Act or that legislation in relation to any matter dealt
with in or arising under the traffic management plan.
(8) A traffic management plan may be amended from time to time.
Subsection (6) applies to the amendment of a traffic management plan
in the same way as it applies to the preparation of a traffic management
plan.
(9) A road cannot be closed under this section unless the RTA has, not less
than 7 days before the proposed closure, given public notice of the
proposed closure by a notice published in a newspaper circulating
generally in New South Wales.
28 Road closures--short periods
(1) This section applies to roads whether or not the roads are within a
transport area.
(2) The RTA may, at the direction of the responsible authority for a major
event, close a road for a period not exceeding 3 consecutive days during
the relevant major event period for any of the following purposes:
(a) facilitating the conduct of the major event,
(b) controlling and regulating traffic at or near any major event
venue or facility,
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(c) ensuring the safety of persons,
(d) protecting property from damage.
(3) It is not necessary to give public notice of the closure of a road under
this section.
29 Road closure to be for shortest possible period
It is the duty of the RTA and the responsible authority for a major event
to ensure that a road is not closed under this Subdivision for a period
longer than is necessary to serve the purpose for which the road is
closed.
30 Offences relating to road closures
(1) If, under this Subdivision, a road is closed to vehicles (whether or not it
is also closed to pedestrians) by the use of a sign or barrier, a person
must not bring a vehicle onto the road contrary to the sign or by
removing, interfering with or going beyond the barrier, except as
permitted by an authorised officer.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(2) If, under this Subdivision, a road is closed to vehicles (whether or not it
is also closed to pedestrians) by the use of a sign or barrier, a person in
charge of a vehicle situated on the road who is informed by an
authorised officer that the road is closed and directed by an authorised
officer to remove the vehicle from the road must remove the vehicle
from the road as soon as practicable after the direction is given.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(3) If, under this Subdivision, a road is closed to pedestrians (whether or not
it is also closed to vehicles) by the use of a sign or barrier, a person must
not, without reasonable excuse, enter the road contrary to the sign or by
removing, interfering with or going beyond the barrier, except as
permitted by an authorised officer.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(4) If, under this Subdivision, a road is closed to pedestrians (whether or not
it is also closed to vehicles) by the use of a sign or barrier, a person on
the road who is informed by an authorised officer that the road is closed
and directed by an authorised officer to leave the road must leave the
road as soon as practicable after the direction is given.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(5) A person must not damage, remove or interfere with a sign or barrier
erected or provided for the purpose of closing a road under this
Subdivision, except as permitted by an authorised officer.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
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(6) In this section, authorised officer means a person authorised by the
RTA or the responsible authority for the major event concerned, or a
police officer.
31 Effect of road closure
A road, or any part of a road, does not cease to be a road for the purposes
of the road transport legislation, the Motor Accidents Compensation Act
1999 or any other Act or law because it is closed or access to it is
restricted or the use of it is restricted under this Subdivision or any other
Act.
32 Removal of unattended motor vehicles--generally
(1) This section applies to an unattended motor vehicle or trailer that:
(a) is standing unlawfully, or
(b) constitutes a danger to persons or property, or
(c) is causing an obstruction.
(2) The responsible authority for a major event may declare that, for the
whole or any specified part of the major event period, section 76 of the
Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999 applies to
motor vehicles or trailers to which this section applies on the following
places in the same way as it applies to an unattended motor vehicle or
trailer unlawfully standing on a prescribed place within the meaning of
that section:
(a) a major event lane,
(b) a road that has been closed under this Subdivision,
(c) a specified parking space,
(d) a road notified by the Minister by order published in the Gazette
as a major event route,
(e) a road or area designated by signs erected by the responsible
authority or the RTA as a tow-away area or Special Event
Clearway.
33 Removal of unattended motor vehicles--breach of parking restrictions
The responsible authority for a major event may declare that, for the
whole or any specified part of a major event period, section 76 of the
Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999 applies to
unattended motor vehicles or trailers that are parked on specified roads
in breach of a parking restriction in the same way as it applies to an
unattended motor vehicle or trailer unlawfully standing on a prescribed
place within the meaning of that section.
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34 Declarations under sections 32 and 33
A declaration under section 32 (Removal of unattended motor
vehicles--generally) or 33 (Removal of unattended motor vehicles--
breach of parking restrictions) is to be published in a newspaper
circulating generally in New South Wales and has effect from the date
of publication or, if a later date is specified in the declaration for that
purpose, on the later date so specified.
35 Removal of unattended motor vehicles--emergencies
(1) At any time during a major event period, the responsible authority for
the major event may:
(a) request a police officer, or
(b) direct another authorised officer,
to remove an unattended motor vehicle or trailer from a road within a
transport area if the responsible authority is of the opinion that it is
necessary to do so.
(2) The provisions of section 76 (2)-(8A) of the Road Transport (Safety
and Traffic Management) Act 1999 apply to the removal of an
unattended motor vehicle or trailer in accordance with this section in the
same way as they apply to the removal of an unattended motor vehicle
or trailer in accordance with that section.
(3) However, it is not necessary that the unattended motor vehicle or trailer
is standing unlawfully.
(4) In this section, authorised officer has the same meaning as in section 76
of the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999.
36 Penalty notices
For the avoidance of doubt, and without limiting the application of any
other powers of prosecution or enforcement under the road transport
legislation, penalty notices may be issued under the road transport
legislation in relation to offences created by this Subdivision.
Division 4 Commercial and airspace controls
37 Control of sale and distribution of articles in certain public places
(1) For the purposes of this section, a controlled area is any of the
following areas:
(a) the area comprising, or comprising and adjacent to, a transport
facility or interchange or a major event venue or facility, being an
area that is specified or described in an order of the Minister
published in the Gazette for the purposes of this section,
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(b) a public place, or any part of a public place, that is within
100 metres (or such greater distance as is prescribed by the
regulations) of a transport facility or interchange or a major event
venue or facility, being a public place, or part of a public place,
that is shown on a map referred to in an order of the Minister
published in the Gazette for the purposes of this section.
(2) A person must not sell or distribute a prescribed article during the sales
control period in a controlled area without the approval of the
responsible authority.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(3) An authorised officer may give a direction to a person who sells or
distributes any prescribed article during the sales control period in a
controlled area without the approval of the responsible authority to
remove the article, and any other prescribed articles within the person's
possession or under the person's control, from the area immediately or
by such other time as may be directed.
(4) A person must not fail or refuse to comply with a direction given to the
person by an authorised officer under subsection (3).
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(5) If a person fails or refuses to comply with a direction given under
subsection (3) for the removal of a prescribed article, the article is
forfeited to the Crown and may be seized by an authorised officer.
(6) A person whose article is forfeited to the Crown under this section may
appeal against the forfeiture to the Local Court within 21 days after the
forfeiture.
(7) The Local Court may determine the appeal by:
(a) upholding the forfeiture, or
(b) ordering the return of the article to the appellant, or
(c) making such other order as it thinks fit.
(8) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to:
(a) approvals under this section, including:
(i) applications for approval, and
(ii) application fees, and
(iii) determination of applications, and
(iv) appeals against determinations of applications, and
(b) the making and determination of appeals under subsection (7).
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(9) In this section:
authorised officer means any of the following who have been
authorised in writing by the responsible authority for the major event
concerned for the purposes of this section:
(a) a police officer,
(b) an officer or employee of a government agency,
(c) a person, or a member of a class of persons, prescribed by the
regulations for the purposes of this definition.
prescribed article means an article of a class prescribed by the
regulations as being a prescribed article for the purposes of this section.
sales control period means the period prescribed by the regulations for
the purposes of this section.
sell includes any of the following:
(a) sell by wholesale, retail, auction or tender,
(b) hire,
(c) barter or exchange,
(d) supply for profit,
(e) offer for sale or hire, receive for sale or hire, have in possession
for sale or hire or expose or exhibit for sale or hire,
(f) conduct negotiations for sale or hire,
(g) consign or deliver for sale or hire,
(h) solicit for sale or hire,
(i) cause or permit anything referred to above,
and includes to sell from a standing vehicle or any article.
(10) A regulation for the purposes of the definition of sales control period in
subsection (9) that extends a sales control period may be made before
or during that period.
38 Control of airspace
(1) In this section:
CASA means the Civil Aviation Safety Authority established by the
Civil Aviation Act 1988 of the Commonwealth.
Commonwealth Air Navigation Regulations means the Air Navigation
Regulations 1947 of the Commonwealth.
Commonwealth Airspace Regulations means the Airspace Regulations
2007 of the Commonwealth.
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controlled airspace means airspace that CASA has determined under
the Commonwealth Airspace Regulations to be a control area or control
zone.
restricted area means airspace that CASA has declared under the
Commonwealth Airspace Regulations to be a restricted area.
State air navigation means air navigation within New South Wales to
and in relation to which the Commonwealth Air Navigation Regulations
are applied as if they were State law by section 4 of the Air Navigation
Act 1938.
(2) A person must not, during a major event and in the course of State air
navigation, cause an aircraft to enter, or operate an aircraft within,
controlled airspace or a restricted area that is over a major event venue
or facility unless permitted to do so by or under relevant
Commonwealth law (including permission by or under an instrument
given under such a law).
Maximum penalty: 2,000 penalty units.
(3) The provisions of this section prevail to the extent of any inconsistency
between this section and the provisions of the Commonwealth Air
Navigation Regulations (as applied to and in relation to State air
navigation by the Air Navigation Act 1938).
(4) This section does not apply to the operation of:
(a) a military aircraft, or an aircraft of the NSW Police Force, when
being operated for military, security or emergency purposes, or
(b) an aircraft when being operated exclusively for emergency
purposes relating to human life or safety, or the protection of
property.
39 Prohibition of certain advertising on buildings and structures
(1) For the purposes of this section, an advertising controlled site is any of
the following:
(a) a major event venue or facility, being a venue or facility
designated by the Minister by an order published in the Gazette
for the purposes of this section,
(b) an area within 500 metres of a major event venue or facility,
being an area designated by the Minister by an order published in
the Gazette for the purposes of this section.
Note. The Minister may amend or repeal an order made under this section. See
section 43 of the Interpretation Act 1987.
(2) An area is an advertising controlled site for the purposes of this section
only for:
(a) the period specified in the order, or
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(b) if no period is specified in the order--the relevant major event
period or, if the major event period has already commenced, the
remainder of that period.
(3) Notice of an order designating any venue, facility or area to be an
advertising controlled site for the purposes of this section must be
published in at least one newspaper circulating generally in the State
and, if the venue, facility or area to which the order relates is outside the
Sydney Metropolitan area, in a newspaper circulating in the locality of
the venue, facility or area.
(4) Except as authorised or permitted by the responsible authority for the
major event, a person who is the owner or occupier or the holder of a
lease or licence relating to a building or structure that is (or is part of)
an advertising controlled site must not, while the land is an advertising
controlled site:
(a) cause or permit any advertising material to be fixed to or placed
on the building or structure, or
(b) fail to ensure that any advertising material already fixed to or
placed on a building or structure is covered, obliterated or
removed.
Maximum penalty:
(a) in the case of an individual--250 penalty units, or
(b) in the case of a corporation--500 penalty units.
(5) A person authorised by the responsible authority for the major event for
the purposes of this subsection may cover, obliterate or remove any
advertising material that is on a building or structure in contravention of
subsection (4).
(6) A person authorised under subsection (5) may enter:
(a) an advertising controlled site to undertake the covering,
obliteration or removal referred to in that subsection, and
(b) other adjacent premises, if necessary to undertake that covering,
obliteration or removal.
(7) A person is not entitled under this section to enter a part of premises
used only for residential purposes, except with the consent of the
occupier of the part.
(8) In exercising functions under subsections (5) and (6), the person must:
(a) cause as little damage as possible, and
(b) produce to any person apparently in charge of the premises who
requests its production the person's authorisation under that
subsection.
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(9) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (4) that
relates to an area referred to in subsection (1) (b), if the defendant
establishes that the advertising material concerned:
(a) was fixed to or placed on the building or structure before the
relevant order was made, and
(b) was so fixed or placed by a person as part of the person's ordinary
activities and not in anticipation of the major event concerned,
and
(c) does not contain any statement, or make any inference, that the
advertiser is a sponsor or supporter of, or is in any way connected
with, the major event concerned.
(10) For the avoidance of doubt, the functions under subsections (5) and (6)
may be exercised in relation to advertising material even if a person is
able to establish the defence under subsection (9) in relation to that
material.
(11) This section does not apply to the following advertising material:
(a) any advertising material:
(i) that has an area of not more than one square metre, or
(ii) comprising a series of related advertisements that together
have an area of not more than one square metre,
(b) any advertising material that is exempted from this section by the
regulations.
40 Prohibition of certain aerial advertising
(1) For the purposes of this section, advertising controlled airspace means
airspace that is within unaided sight of a major event venue or facility
that is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section, but
only during such periods as are prescribed by the regulations in relation
to the place.
(2) A person must not display an advertisement, or cause an advertisement
to be displayed, in advertising controlled airspace, except with the
approval of the responsible authority for the major event concerned.
Maximum penalty: 2,000 penalty units.
(3) An application for the approval of the responsible authority under this
section may be made in such form and manner as is determined by the
responsible authority.
(4) The responsible authority may determine an application by granting the
application, unconditionally or subject to conditions, or by refusing the
application.
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(5) For the purposes of this section, the responsible authority may grant
approval to a person, or to classes or descriptions of persons, only if in
its opinion the display of the advertisement will not adversely affect the
organisation or conduct of the major event.
(6) The determination of the responsible authority with respect to an
application for approval is final.
(7) For the purposes of this section:
advertisement includes advertising by any of the following methods:
(a) skywriting or signwriting by an aircraft,
(b) a banner, or other sign, towed by or attached to an aircraft,
(c) matter displayed on an aircraft, other than its normal markings
and livery,
(d) matter displayed on a hang glider, parachute, paraglider or
similar device, other than its normal markings, or on a banner or
sign attached to a hang glider, parachute, paraglider or similar
device,
(e) a banner, or other sign, attached to a person suspended from a
hang glider, parachute, paraglider or similar device.
aircraft includes an airship or a balloon.
41 Commercial and other activities
(1) A person must not do any of the following at a major event venue or
facility, except as authorised by the responsible authority:
(a) provide, or offer to provide, any services for fee, gain or reward,
(b) sell or attempt to sell a ticket for admission to a major event
venue or facility,
(c) use any audio, loudspeaker or broadcasting equipment or camera
(whether photographic, cinematic or video) for a commercial
purpose,
(d) damage, destroy or remove any building, structure or equipment,
(e) leave any rubbish or litter, except in a receptacle provided for the
purpose,
(f) collect or attempt to collect money from members of the public,
(g) busk,
(h) conduct, or participate in, any game or other activity in a manner
that unduly interferes with the amenity of the area,
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(i) operate or use any radio, television, record-player, tape recorder,
compact disc player, musical instrument or other
sound-generating device in a manner that unduly interferes with
the amenity of the area,
(j) erect a tent or other temporary structure,
(k) paint, erect or affix any decoration, sign or other equipment,
(l) carry or discharge or have in the person's possession any firearm
(within the meaning of the Firearms Act 1996) or prohibited
weapon (within the meaning of the Weapons Prohibition Act
1998), unless:
(i) the person is a police officer of the State or the
Commonwealth, or
(ii) the person is the holder of a licence under the Security
Industry Act 1997, is carrying out functions authorised by
the licence, and is the holder of the relevant licence or
permit under the Firearms Act 1996 or the Weapons
Prohibition Act 1998 (as the case requires).
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
(2) An authorisation under this section may be given to a person or a class
of persons.
42 Use of official title and official insignia
(1) A person must not use any official title, or official insignia, of a major
event for a commercial purpose without the written consent of the
responsible authority.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units.
(2) A consent under this section:
(a) may be given with or without conditions (including conditions
requiring payment to the responsible authority or another
person), and
(b) may be revoked by the responsible authority for breach of a
condition by notice in writing given personally or by post to a
person who has the benefit of the consent.
(3) In this section:
official insignia means a logo, symbol or other design approved by the
responsible authority for the purposes of this section by notice
published in the Gazette.
official title means the title of the major event approved by the
responsible authority for the purposes of this section by notice
published in the Gazette.
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Division 5 Safety and crowd management at major events
43 Crowd management
(1) The responsible authority for a major event may do any one or more of
the following:
(a) limit the number of persons who may enter a major event venue
or facility or any part of a major event venue or facility,
(b) prohibit categories of persons from entering, or limit categories
of persons who may enter, or limit the number of persons within
categories of persons who may enter, a major event venue or
facility or any part of a major event venue or facility,
(c) close a major event venue or facility or any part of a major event
venue or facility to the public,
(d) charge admission to a major event venue or facility or any part of
a major event venue or facility,
(e) prohibit persons from entering a major event venue or facility or
any part of a major event venue or facility:
(i) if they are in possession of any prohibited thing, or
(ii) if, in the opinion of a person authorised by the responsible
authority, they are or appear to be intoxicated.
(2) The responsible authority for a major event may do any one or more of
the following:
(a) prohibit the entry of vehicles or vessels to a major event venue or
facility or any part of a major event venue or facility,
(b) regulate or otherwise control the entry of vehicles or vessels to a
major event venue or facility or any part of a major event venue
or facility,
(c) refuse to admit a vehicle or vessel to a major event venue or
facility or any part of a major event venue or facility.
(3) The responsible authority may take any action referred to in
subsection (1) or (2) by means of the erection of a sign or the giving of
a direction to the person concerned.
(4) A person must not do anything in wilful contravention of a sign erected
or a direction given under this section.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
(5) Nothing in this section limits any other function of the responsible
authority under this Act.
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(6) This section does not prohibit a person with a disability (within the
meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 of the
Commonwealth) from being accompanied by an assistance animal (that
is, an animal referred to in section 9 of that Act).
(7) In this section, prohibited thing means the following:
(a) an animal,
(b) a distress signal,
(c) dangerous goods (within the meaning of the Dangerous Goods
(Road and Rail Transport) Act 2008),
(d) a firearm, or ammunition, within the meaning of the Firearms
Act 1996,
(e) a prohibited weapon within the meaning of the Weapons
Prohibition Act 1998,
(f) a firework,
(g) any other thing prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of
this definition.
44 Personal conduct
(1) A person must not do any of the following at a major event venue or
facility:
(a) use indecent, obscene or threatening language,
(b) behave in an offensive or indecent manner,
(c) cause serious alarm or affront to a person by disorderly conduct,
(d) obstruct a person in the performance of the person's work or
duties,
(e) fail to comply with a reasonable request or direction given for the
purpose of securing good order and management and enjoyment
of a major event venue or facility, or any part of a major event
venue or facility, by the responsible authority or an authorised
officer.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) In this section, authorised officer means any of the following who have
been authorised in writing by the responsible authority for the major
event concerned for the purposes of this section:
(a) a police officer,
(b) an officer or employee of a government agency,
(c) a person, or a member of a class of persons, prescribed by the
regulations for the purposes of this definition.
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45 Request to undergo search as condition of entry to major event venue or
facility
(1) A person's entry to a major event venue or facility (or any part of a
major event venue or facility) is subject to the condition that the person
must comply with such of the following requests as may be made of the
person:
(a) a request by an authorised officer that the person undergo a
search conducted by electronic means (such as by passing an
electronic detection device over or in close proximity to the
person or by the person passing through a detection device),
(b) a request by an authorised officer that the person allow a search
of articles in the person's possession and identify articles in the
person's possession,
(c) a request by an authorised officer that the person remove his or
her overcoat, coat or jacket or similar article of clothing and any
gloves, shoes and hat (or other headwear), and allow an
examination of those items,
(d) if the person enters in a vehicle or vessel--a request by an
authorised officer that the person open the vehicle or vessel, or
part of it, for inspection and allow the vehicle, vessel or part to be
searched.
Note. A failure to comply with such a request is not an offence. However, a
person who refuses such a request may be excluded from entry to the major
event venue or facility or part of the major event venue or facility concerned
under subsection (2).
(2) An authorised officer may exclude a person who refuses such a request
from entry to the major event venue or facility or part of the major event
venue or facility concerned.
(3) Reasonable force may be used to effect the person's exclusion.
(4) In this section, authorised officer means any of the following who have
been authorised in writing by the responsible authority for the major
event concerned for the purposes of this section:
(a) a police officer,
(b) an officer or employee of a government agency,
(c) a person, or a member of a class of persons, prescribed by the
regulations for the purposes of this definition.
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46 Directions to leave
(1) An authorised officer may require a person who is in any part of a major
event venue or facility, or who is seeking entry to any part of a major
event venue or facility, to produce a ticket or permit authorising the
person to enter that part of the major event venue or facility.
(2) An authorised officer may direct a person to leave a part of a major
event venue or facility if the person is not authorised by a ticket or
permit to be in that part of the major event venue or facility.
(3) An authorised officer may request a person who is in any part of a major
event venue or facility:
(a) to open any bag, container or other thing in the person's
possession in order that its contents may be inspected, and
(b) to permit any thing in the person's possession, and the contents
of any such thing, to be inspected.
Note. A failure to comply with such a request is not an offence. However, a
person who refuses such a request may be directed to leave the major event
venue or facility or any part of the major event venue or facility concerned under
subsection (4) (c). Failure to comply with such a direction is an offence under
subsection (5).
(4) An authorised officer may direct a person to leave a major event venue
or facility or any part of a major event venue or facility if the officer
believes on reasonable grounds that:
(a) the person is contravening or has contravened any provision of
this Act or the regulations or is committing or has committed any
other offence at the major event venue or facility, or
(b) the person is failing or has failed to comply with a notice or
direction referred to in section 43 (Crowd management), or
(c) the person is failing or has failed to comply with a request under
subsection (3), or
(d) the person is causing a significant disruption or inconvenience or
behaving in an offensive manner or in a manner likely to
endanger the person or another person, or
(e) the person is about to contravene a provision of this Act or the
regulations at a major event venue or facility.
(5) A person must not fail to comply with a direction under this section.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(6) An authorised officer may remove from the major event venue or
facility any person who fails to comply with a direction under this
section.
(7) Reasonable force may be used to effect the person's removal.
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(8) In this section, authorised officer means any of the following who have
been authorised in writing by the responsible authority for the major
event concerned for the purposes of this section:
(a) a police officer,
(b) an officer or employee of a government agency,
(c) a person, or a member of a class of persons, prescribed by the
regulations for the purposes of this definition.
47 Prohibited entry to playing fields
A person must not enter or remain on a playing field or other
competition area within a sportsground that is a major event venue or
facility unless the person:
(a) is a participant in a sport or event held with the authorisation of
the relevant responsible authority, or
(b) is engaged in the control or management of any such sport or
event, or
(c) has, or is a member of a class of persons that has, been authorised
by the relevant responsible authority to enter the playing field or
other competition area.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
48 Responsible authority may ban persons for specified period
(1) If a responsible authority for a major event is of the opinion that a
person has contravened any provision of this Act or the regulations, the
responsible authority may ban the person from entering any major event
venue or facility (or part of a major event venue or facility) for such
period (not exceeding 6 months) as the responsible authority
determines.
(2) A person who is banned from entering a major event venue or facility
under this section must not enter the major event venue or facility while
the ban is in force.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
49 Taking photographs of certain persons
The responsible authority for a major event may take a photograph or
make another form of image of a person who is removed from a major
event venue or facility under this Act.
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Division 6 Environmental Planning and Assessment Act
1979
50 Relationship with Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
(1) This Division is to be construed with, and as if it formed part of, the
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
(2) However, unless otherwise specified, in this Division:
(a) references to provisions are references to provisions of this Act,
and
(b) references to this Act are references to the Major Events Act
2009.
(3) In the event of an inconsistency between this Division and the
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, this Division
prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.
51 Modification of environmental planning instruments and development
consents
(1) Until the expiry date, a person who is authorised or permitted to carry
out a permitted activity on land by or under this Act, or a policy, strategy
or plan prepared and implemented by the responsible authority for a
major event for the purposes of this Act, may carry out that activity on
land despite the fact that the carrying out of the activity is not authorised
by or is contrary to or inconsistent with:
(a) the provisions of an environmental planning instrument applying
to the land, or
(b) the terms or conditions of a development consent applying to the
land.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a permitted activity means:
(a) the use of land for any purpose, or
(b) the erection or use of structures or buildings on the land, or
(c) the demolition or removal of any such structures, or
(d) the carrying out of any work, or
(e) anything done pursuant to a declaration under section 57.
(3) The responsible authority may impose conditions on the carrying out of
a permitted activity by a person as referred to in subsection (1).
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to the carrying out of a permitted activity
in contravention of any such condition.
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(5) If a building or structure is erected before the expiry date in reliance on
subsection (1) and is not removed or demolished before that date, the
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and any relevant
instrument made under that Act apply on and after the expiry date to the
building or structure as if subsection (1) had not authorised its erection.
(6) Until the expiry date, a person does not breach the terms or conditions
of a development consent applying to land that regulates:
(a) the hours of operation of an activity (including a business) on or
in relation to the land, or
(b) the means of access to the land, or
(c) the emission of noise, including permissible noise levels, on or
from the land, or
(d) activities that affect the amenity of the locality,
by the doing of anything that is reasonably necessary to be done by or
under, or as a consequence of the operation of, this Act, that is
reasonably necessary to be done in order to comply with or give effect
to a policy, strategy or plan prepared and implemented by the
responsible authority for the purposes of this Act or that is done
pursuant to a declaration under section 57.
(7) In this section:
development consent includes an approval under Part 3A of the
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
expiry date means the date prescribed by the regulations in relation to a
major event for the purposes of this section.
Division 7 Local Government Act 1993
52 Relationship with Local Government Act 1993
(1) This Division is to be construed with, and as if it formed part of, the
Local Government Act 1993.
(2) However, unless otherwise specified, in this Division:
(a) references to provisions are references to provisions of this Act,
and
(b) references to this Act are references to the Major Events Act
2009.
(3) In the event of an inconsistency between this Division and the Local
Government Act 1993, this Division prevails to the extent of the
inconsistency.
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53 Modification of certain approvals
(1) A person who is authorised or permitted to do anything by or under this
Act, or a policy, strategy or plan prepared and implemented by the
responsible authority for a major event for the purposes of this Act, may
do that thing despite the fact that the doing of it is not authorised by or
is contrary to, or inconsistent with, the terms or conditions of an
approval granted under the Local Government Act 1993.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a thing is done under this Act if it is
done pursuant to a declaration under section 57.
(3) A person does not breach the terms or conditions of an approval relating
to:
(a) the management of waste, being an approval under item 1, 2, 3 or
4 of Part C of the Table to section 68 of the Local Government
Act 1993, or
(b) the hours during which an activity may take place, or
(c) the means of access to land or premises, or
(d) the emission of noise, including permissible noise levels, or
(e) the effect of an activity on the amenity of the locality,
by the doing of anything that is reasonably necessary to be done by or
under, or as a consequence of the operation of, this Act, that is
reasonably necessary to be done in order to comply with or give effect
to a policy, strategy or plan prepared and implemented by the
responsible authority for the purposes of this Act or that is done
pursuant to a declaration under section 57.
(4) A person who is exempt from the requirement to obtain an approval
under section 68 of the Local Government Act 1993 does not cease to be
exempt from the requirement by the doing of anything that is reasonably
necessary to be done under, or as a consequence of the operation of, this
Act.
54 Use of community land
(1) Nothing in the Local Government Act 1993 or an instrument under that
Act, including a plan of management for community land, prevents or
restricts the use of community land, with the approval of the local
council, for any of the following purposes:
(a) events approved by the responsible authority in relation to a
major event,
(b) development for the purposes of temporary major event venues
and facilities,
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(c) an activity or a community event associated with a major event
and held during the relevant major event period.
(2) For the purpose of obtaining an approval of the local council under
subsection (1), the use of community land for a purpose specified in that
subsection is taken to be an activity prescribed by the regulations as
referred to in item 10 of Part F of the Table to section 68 of the Local
Government Act 1993.
55 Authorised persons
An employee of a local council who is an authorised person for the
purposes of the Local Government Act 1993 and who exercises
functions during the relevant major event period for another local
council is taken to have been authorised by that other local council to
exercise those functions and to be an authorised person for the purposes
of that Act in relation to that other local council.
Division 8 Protection of the Environment Operations Act
1997
56 Relationship with Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997
(1) This Division is to be construed with, and as if it formed part of, the
Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997.
(2) However, unless otherwise specified, in this Division:
(a) references to provisions are references to provisions of this Act,
and
(b) references to this Act are references to the Major Events Act
2009.
(3) In the event of an inconsistency between this Division and the
Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997, this Division
prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.
57 Modification of environmental impacts
(1) The responsible authority for a major event may declare that any person
specified in the declaration may carry out such activities as are so
specified, being activities that, in the opinion of the responsible
authority, are necessary for, or ancillary to, or otherwise associated with
the conduct of the major event, on such days during the major event
period and during such hours as are so specified.
(2) The specification of a person or activity in a declaration may be by
means of a class or description of persons or activities.
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(3) A declaration may prohibit a person from causing, permitting or
allowing the emission of noise from premises on which activities are
carried out at a noise level which, when measured at any point outside
the premises, exceeds a specified level. Such a prohibition may be
enforced as if it were contained in a noise control notice issued under
section 264 of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997.
(4) Before making a declaration, the responsible authority must consult
with the Environment Protection Authority concerning the proposed
terms of the declaration and must also take into consideration the noise
impacts, or the likely noise impacts, of the activity or activities on
residents.
(5) A declaration is to be published in the Gazette.
(6) A declaration takes effect on the day it is published in the Gazette or, if
a later day is specified in the declaration for that purpose, on the later
day so specified.
(7) A declaration has effect despite the terms of:
(a) the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 or any
other Act, or
(b) any instrument made under the Protection of the Environment
Operations Act 1997 or any other Act, or
(c) any approval, consent, licence, permission or any other form of
authorisation given or granted under any such Act or instrument,
or
(d) any trust, estate, interest, dedication, reservation, condition,
restriction or covenant affecting the land specified in the
declaration.
(8) The responsible authority may amend or repeal a declaration in the
same way as it may make a declaration.
58 Effect of declaration
(1) In this section, declaration means a declaration made under section 57.
(2) Except as provided by section 263 of the Protection of the Environment
Operations Act 1997, during the period for which a declaration has
effect, the relevant responsible authority is, in relation to the emission
of noise, the appropriate regulatory authority for the activities to which
the declaration applies and the premises on which the activities are
carried out.
(3) A prevention notice under section 96 of the Protection of the
Environment Operations Act 1997, or a noise control notice under
section 264 of that Act, cannot be given to a person to prohibit the
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person from causing, permitting or allowing anything to be done that is
authorised by a declaration.
(4) An application cannot be made under section 268 of the Protection of
the Environment Operations Act 1997 in respect of noise emitted in
accordance with a declaration.
(5) A noise abatement direction under section 276 of the Protection of the
Environment Operations Act 1997 cannot be given in respect of noise
emitted in accordance with a declaration.
Division 9 Miscellaneous
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.
60 Authorisations for section 51 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) and
Competition Code
(1) The regulations may specifically authorise agreements and conduct of
the following kind for the purposes of the Trade Practices Act 1974 of
the Commonwealth and the Competition Code of New South Wales:
(a) any agreements entered into (whether before or after the
commencement of the relevant regulation under this section) by
the responsible authority, or by a person or body with the
approval of the responsible authority, relating to or in connection
with a major event,
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(b) the conduct of the parties in entering into any such agreements,
(c) the conduct of the parties in performing any such agreements and
any matter or thing done or omitted to be done by any of the
parties in performing any such agreements.
(2) In this section, agreement includes a contract, arrangement or
understanding.
61 No liability in nuisance
Anything done or omitted to be done by any person:
(a) in the exercise of functions under this Act or the regulations
(including functions which, by this Act, are taken to be functions
under another Act or instrument), or
(b) pursuant to any of the provisions of this Act or the regulations
(including provisions which, by this Act, are taken to be
provisions of another Act or instrument),
does not constitute a nuisance.
62 Compensation not payable in respect of major event-related matters
(1) Compensation is not payable by or on behalf of:
(a) the State or an authority of the State, or
(b) a local council, or
(c) an officer, employee or agent of the State, an authority of the
State or a local council,
for an act or omission that is a major event-related matter or that arises
(directly or indirectly) from a major event-related matter.
(2) Subsection (1):
(a) applies only in respect of acts done or omitted to be done in good
faith, and
(b) does not apply to acts or omissions that cause personal injury to
a person or the death of a person.
(3) Subsection (1) does not affect compensation payable under any
indemnity given, or other agreement made, by the promoter of the major
event or a person referred to in subsection (1), that expressly relates to
a major event-related matter.
(4) In this section:
compensation includes damages and any other form of monetary
compensation.
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major event-related matter means the following:
(a) the conduct or holding of any major event,
(b) works conducted or other things done under an authorisation
given under this Act or the regulations,
(c) the administration or purported administration of this Act,
(d) the exercise or purported exercise of functions under this Act.
63 Civil proceedings to restrain breaches of this Act and certain
agreements
(1) The responsible authority for a major event may bring proceedings in
the Supreme Court for an order to remedy or restrain the following
breaches, whether or not any right of the responsible authority has been
or may be infringed by or as a consequence of that breach:
(a) a breach of this Act,
(b) a breach of an agreement, or class of agreements, prescribed by
the regulations for the purposes of this section.
(2) If the Court is satisfied that a breach referred to in subsection (1) has
been committed or that such a breach may, unless restrained by order of
the Court, be committed, it may make such order as it thinks fit to
remedy or restrain the breach.
(3) Without limiting the powers of the Court under subsection (2), an order
made under that subsection may:
(a) where the breach relates to a use of any building, work or land--
restrain that use, and
(b) where the breach is a breach of an agreement--specify actions
that must be taken or actions that must cease or be refrained from.
(4) The functions of the Court under this section are in addition to and not
in derogation from any other functions of the Court.
(5) Nothing in this section limits or otherwise affects other remedies that
the responsible authority may have (apart from this section) in relation
to a breach of an agreement.
(6) In this section:
(a) a reference to a breach of an agreement is a reference to:
(i) a contravention of or failure to comply with the agreement,
and
(ii) a threatened or an apprehended contravention of or a
threatened or apprehended failure to comply with the
agreement, and
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(b) a reference to a breach of this Act is a reference to:
(i) a contravention of or failure to comply with this Act, and
(ii) a threatened or an apprehended contravention of or a
threatened or apprehended failure to comply with this Act,
and
(c) a reference to this Act includes a reference to the regulations.
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64 Proceedings for offences
(1) Proceedings for an offence against a provision of this Act that is to be
construed with, and as if it formed part of, another Act or an instrument
may be dealt with under the other Act or the instrument as if the offence
were an offence against a provision of that other Act or instrument.
(2) Proceedings for an offence against a provision of this Act that is not to
be construed with, and as if it formed part of, another Act or an
instrument, or against the regulations may be dealt with:
(a) summarily before the Local Court, or
(b) summarily before the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction.
(3) If proceedings for an offence to which subsection (2) applies are
brought in the Local Court, the maximum penalty that the Court may
impose in respect of the offence is, despite any other provision of this
Act, 250 penalty units or the maximum penalty provided by this Act,
whichever is the lesser.
(4) If proceedings for an offence to which subsection (2) applies are
brought in the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction, the Supreme
Court may impose a penalty not exceeding the maximum penalty
provided by this Act in respect of the offence.
65 Effect of this Act on contracts, instruments and related matters
(1) The operation of this Act is not to be regarded as:
(a) a breach of contract or confidence or otherwise as a civil wrong,
or
(b) a breach of any instrument, or
(c) an event of default under any contract or other instrument, or
(d) giving rise to any remedy by a party to a contract or other
instrument, or as causing or permitting the termination of, or
exercise of rights under, any contract or other instrument.
(2) Nothing in this section prevents:
(a) the responsible authority bringing proceedings under section 63
(Civil proceedings to restrain breaches of this Act and certain
agreements), if that section applies, or
(b) a person taking such other action, or bringing such other
proceedings, of a kind prescribed by the regulations.
(3) In this section, instrument does not include a statutory instrument.
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66 Exclusion of personal liability
(1) Anything done or omitted to be done by:
(a) a chief executive of an authority or a person acting under the
direction of a chief executive, or
(b) a member of a board of an authority or a person acting under the
direction of such a board or a member of such a board, or
(c) a committee established by a board of an authority, a member of
such a committee or a person acting under the direction of any
such committee or member of a committee,
does not subject the chief executive, member of the board or of the
committee, or person so acting, personally to any action, liability, claim
or demand if the thing was done, or omitted to be done, in good faith for
the purpose of administering this Act.
(2) In this section, authority means a responsible authority or a major event
authority.
67 Delegation of Minister's functions
(1) The Minister may delegate to an authorised person any function of the
Minister conferred or imposed by or under this Act, other than this
power of delegation.
(2) A delegate may sub-delegate to an authorised person any function
delegated by the Minister if the delegate is authorised in writing to do
so by the Minister.
(3) In this section, authorised person means:
(a) a responsible authority, or
(b) a member of staff of a responsible authority, or
(c) a government agency or member of staff of a government agency,
or
(d) a person, a person of a class, or committee of persons, approved
by the Minister or prescribed by the regulations.
(4) The procedure for the calling of meetings of a committee of persons (as
referred to in subsection (3) (d)) and for the conduct of business at those
meetings is to be as determined by the Minister or (subject to any
determination of the Minister) by the committee.
68 Delegation of responsible authority's functions
(1) A responsible authority may delegate to an authorised person any
function conferred or imposed on the responsible authority by or under
this Act, other than this power of delegation.
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(2) A delegate may sub-delegate to an authorised person any function
delegated by the responsible authority if the delegate is authorised in
writing to do so by the responsible authority.
(3) In this section, authorised person means:
(a) a member of staff of the responsible authority, or
(b) a government agency or member of staff of a government agency,
or
(c) a member of the NSW Police Force, or
(d) a person, or committee of persons, of a class approved by the
Minister or prescribed by the regulations.
(4) The procedure for the calling of meetings of a committee of persons (as
referred to in subsection (3) (d)) and for the conduct of business at those
meetings is to be as determined by the Minister or (subject to any
determination of the Minister) by the committee.
69 Recovery of fees and charges
Any charge, fee or money due to a responsible authority under this Act
is recoverable by the responsible authority in a court of competent
jurisdiction as a debt due to the Crown.
70 Identification cards
(1) A responsible authority is to provide each authorised officer authorised
under this Act by the responsible authority who is not a police officer
with an identification card.
(2) An identification card is a card that:
(a) states that it is issued under this Act, and
(b) gives the name of the person to whom it is issued, and
(c) describes the nature of the powers conferred, and
(d) states the date (if any) on which it expires, and
(e) is signed by a delegate of the responsible authority.
(3) In the course of exercising the functions of an authorised officer under
this Act, the authorised officer must, if requested to do so by a person
affected by the exercise of any such function, produce the officer's
identification card to the person.
Note. See section 201 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities)
Act 2002 in relation to a police officer's obligation to produce evidence that the
police officer is a police officer (unless the police officer is in uniform).
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71 Enforcement
For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that, if, by this Act, any
provisions of this Act are to be construed with, and as if they formed
part of, any other Act or statutory instrument, those provisions may be
enforced in accordance with the provisions for the enforcement of those
Acts or statutory instruments.
72 Regulations
(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for
or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to
be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for
carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) In particular, regulations may be made for or with respect to the
following:
(a) the fees and charges that may be imposed for the purposes of this
Act,
(b) regulating the use by the public of, and the conduct of the public
in or on, major event venues and facilities,
(c) regulating, restricting or prohibiting the bringing of liquor into, or
consumption of liquor within, a major event venue or facility
during a major event period,
(d) regulating the provision of services by responsible authorities,
(e) requirements or guidelines for the preparation of road and
transport plans by responsible authorities,
(f) conferring on a responsible authority any function that may be
exercised by a local council in relation to a public place,
(g) requiring the payment of fares or other charges for the use of any
facility operated or service provided by a responsible authority or
a government agency for the purposes of this Act.
(3) The regulations may create an offence punishable by a maximum
penalty of 50 penalty units.
73 Penalty notices
(1) An authorised officer may serve a penalty notice on a person if it
appears to the officer that the person has committed an offence against
this Act or the regulations, being an offence prescribed by the
regulations as a penalty notice offence.
(2) A penalty notice is a notice to the effect that, if the person served does
not wish to have the matter determined by a court, the person can pay,
within the time and to the person specified in the notice, the amount of
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the penalty prescribed by the regulations for the offence if dealt with
under this section.
(3) A penalty notice under this section is declared to be a penalty notice for
the purposes of the Fines Act 1996.
(4) A penalty notice may be served personally or by post.
(5) If the amount of penalty prescribed for an alleged offence is paid under
this section, no person is liable to any further proceedings for the
alleged offence.
(6) Payment under this section is not to be regarded as an admission of
liability for the purpose of, and does not in any way affect or prejudice,
any civil claim, action or proceeding arising out of the same occurrence.
(7) The regulations may:
(a) prescribe an offence for the purposes of this section by specifying
the offence or by referring to the provision creating the offence,
and
(b) prescribe the amount of penalty payable for the offence if dealt
with under this section, and
(c) prescribe different amounts of penalties for different offences or
classes of offences.
(8) The amount of a penalty prescribed under this section for an offence is
not to exceed the maximum amount of penalty that could be imposed for
the offence by a court.
(9) This section does not limit the operation of any other provision of, or
made under, this or any other Act relating to proceedings that may be
taken in respect of offences.
(10) In this section, authorised officer means any of the following who have
been authorised in writing by the responsible authority for the major
event concerned for the purposes of this section:
(a) a police officer,
(b) an officer or employee of a government agency,
(c) a person, or a member of a class of persons, prescribed by the
regulations for the purposes of this definition.
74 Offences by corporations
(1) If a corporation contravenes, whether by act or omission, any provision
of this Act or the regulations, each person who is a director of the
corporation or who is concerned in the management of the corporation
is taken to have contravened the same provision if the person knowingly
authorised or permitted the contravention.
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(2) A person may be proceeded against and convicted under a provision
pursuant to subsection (1) whether or not the corporation has been
proceeded against or has been convicted under the provision.
(3) Nothing in this section affects any liability imposed on a corporation for
an offence committed by the corporation under this Act or the
regulations.
75 Review of Act
(1) The Minister is to review this Act to determine whether the policy
objectives of the Act remain valid and whether the terms of the Act
remain appropriate for securing those objectives.
(2) The review is to be undertaken as soon as possible after the period of
5 years from the date of assent to this Act.
(3) A report on the outcome of the review is to be tabled in each House of
Parliament within 12 months after the end of the period of 5 years.
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Schedule 1 Constitution and procedure of board
governed major event authorities
(Section 10 (5))
Part 1 General
1 Definitions
In this Schedule:
board means a board of a board governed authority.
Chairperson means the Chairperson of a board.
member means any member of a board.
Part 2 Constitution
2 Terms of office of members
Subject to this Schedule and the regulations, a member holds office for
such period (not exceeding 3 years) as is specified in the member's
instrument of appointment, but is eligible (if otherwise qualified) for
re-appointment.
3 Remuneration
A member is entitled to be paid such remuneration (including travelling
and subsistence allowances) as the Minister may from time to time
determine in respect of the member.
4 Deputies
(1) A member may, from time to time, appoint a person to be the deputy of
the member, and may revoke any such appointment.
(2) In the absence of a member, the member's deputy may, if available, act
in the place of the member.
(3) While acting in the place of a member, a person has all the functions of
the member and is taken to be a member.
(4) For the purposes of this clause, a vacancy in the office of a member is
taken to be an absence of the member.
(5) This clause does not operate to confer on the deputy of a member who
is the Chairperson the member's functions as Chairperson.
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5 Vacancy in office of member
(1) The office of a member becomes vacant if the member:
(a) dies, or
(b) completes a term of office and is not re-appointed, or
(c) resigns the office by instrument in writing addressed to the
Minister, or
(d) is removed from office by the Minister under this clause, or
(e) is absent from 3 consecutive meetings of the board of which
reasonable notice has been given to the member personally or by
post, except on leave granted by the Minister or unless the
member is excused by the Minister for having been absent from
those meetings, or
(f) becomes bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of any law for the
relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with his or her
creditors or makes an assignment of his or her remuneration for
their benefit, or
(g) becomes a mentally incapacitated person, or
(h) is convicted in New South Wales of an offence that is punishable
by imprisonment for 12 months or more or is convicted
elsewhere than in New South Wales of an offence that, if
committed in New South Wales, would be an offence so
punishable.
(2) The Minister may remove a member from office at any time.
6 Filling of vacancy in office of member
If the office of any member becomes vacant, a person is, subject to this
Act and the regulations, to be appointed to fill the vacancy.
7 Chairperson
(1) One of the members is, by the instrument of the member's appointment
or by a subsequent instrument, to be appointed as Chairperson of the
board to hold office during the member's term of office as a member.
(2) The Chairperson vacates office as Chairperson if he or she:
(a) is removed from that office by the Minister under this clause, or
(b) resigns that office by instrument in writing addressed to the
Minister, or
(c) ceases to be a member of the board.
(3) The Minister may at any time remove the Chairperson from office as
Chairperson.
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8 Disclosure of pecuniary interests
(1) If:
(a) a member has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter
being considered or about to be considered at a meeting of the
board, and
(b) the interest appears to raise a conflict with the proper
performance of the member's duties in relation to the
consideration of the matter,
the member must, as soon as possible after the relevant facts have come
to the member's knowledge, disclose the nature of the interest at a
meeting of the board.
(2) A disclosure by a member at a meeting of the board that the member:
(a) is a member, or is in the employment, of a specified company or
other body, or
(b) is a partner, or is in the employment, of a specified person, or
(c) has some other specified interest relating to a specified company
or other body or to a specified person,
is a sufficient disclosure of the nature of the interest in any matter
relating to that company or other body or to that person which may arise
after the date of the disclosure and which is required to be disclosed
under subclause (1).
(3) Particulars of any disclosure made under this clause must be recorded
by the board in a book kept for the purpose and that book must be open
at all reasonable hours to inspection by any person on payment of the
fee determined by the board.
(4) After a member has disclosed the nature of an interest in any matter, the
member must not, unless the Minister or the board otherwise
determines:
(a) be present during any deliberation of the board with respect to the
matter, or
(b) take part in any decision of the board with respect to the matter.
(5) For the purposes of the making of a determination by the board under
subclause (4), a member who has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest
in a matter to which the disclosure relates must not:
(a) be present during any deliberation of the board for the purpose of
making the determination, or
(b) take part in the making by the board of the determination.
(6) A contravention of this clause does not invalidate any decision of the
board.
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(7) This clause applies to a member of a committee of the board and the
committee in the same way as it applies to a member of the board and
the board.
9 Effect of certain other Acts
(1) Chapter 2 of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002
does not apply to or in respect of the appointment of a member.
(2) If by or under any Act provision is made:
(a) requiring a person who is the holder of a specified office to
devote the whole of his or her time to the duties of that office, or
(b) prohibiting the person from engaging in employment outside the
duties of that office,
the provision does not operate to disqualify the person from holding that
office and also the office of a member or from accepting and retaining
any remuneration payable to the person under this Act as a member.
Part 3 Procedure
10 General procedure
The procedure for the calling of meetings of a board and for the conduct
of business at those meetings is, subject to this Act and the regulations,
to be as determined by the board.
11 Quorum
The quorum for a meeting of a board is a majority of its members for
the time being.
12 Presiding member
(1) The Chairperson (or, in the absence of the Chairperson, a person elected
by the members of the board who are present at a meeting of the board)
is to preside at a meeting of the board.
(2) The presiding member has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an
equality of votes, has a second or casting vote.
13 Voting
A decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of a
board at which a quorum is present is the decision of the board.
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14 Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone
(1) A board may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the
circulation of papers among all the members of the board for the time
being, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of
those members is taken to be a decision of the board.
(2) A board may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business at a meeting at
which members (or some members) participate by telephone,
closed-circuit television or other means, but only if any member who
speaks on a matter before the meeting can be heard by the other
members.
(3) For the purposes of:
(a) the approval of a resolution under subclause (1), or
(b) a meeting held in accordance with subclause (2),
the Chairperson and each member have the same voting rights as they
have at an ordinary meeting of the board.
(4) A resolution approved under subclause (1) is, subject to the regulations,
to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the board.
(5) Papers may be circulated among the members for the purposes of
subclause (1) by facsimile or other transmission of the information in
the papers concerned.
15 First meeting
The Minister may call the first meeting of a board in such manner as the
Minister thinks fit.
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of major event authorities
Schedule 2 Dissolutions, amalgamations and
changes of name or nature of
governance of major event authorities
(Section 12 (2))
Part 1 General
1 Definitions
In this Schedule:
instrument means an instrument (other than this Act) that creates,
modifies or extinguishes rights or liabilities (or would do so if lodged,
filed or registered in accordance with any law), and includes any
judgment, order or process of a court.
transferee means the person or body to which any assets, rights or
liabilities are transferred.
transferor means the person or body from which any assets, rights or
liabilities are transferred.
2 Regulations to which this Schedule applies
This Schedule applies to the following regulations:
(a) a regulation under section 12 (1) (a) dissolving a major event
authority,
(b) a regulation under section 12 (1) (b) changing the name of a
major event authority,
(c) a regulation under section 12 (1) (c) (i) changing the nature of
governance of a major event authority from board governance to
chief executive governance,
(d) a regulation under section 12 (1) (d) amalgamating 2 or more
major event authorities.
3 Effect of regulations
(1) Dissolution regulations
On and from the date specified in a regulation made under
section 12 (1) (a) dissolving a major event authority:
(a) the major event authority is dissolved, and
(b) the chief executive of the major event authority ceases to hold
office, and
(c) in the case of a board governed authority, the members of the
board (other than the chief executive) cease to hold office, but are
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not entitled to be paid any compensation by reason of ceasing to
hold office, and
(d) the assets, rights and liabilities of the major event authority are
transferred to:
(i) the Crown, or
(ii) if another person or body is prescribed by the regulations
for the purpose of this clause--that person or body, and
(e) Part 2 applies to that transfer.
(2) Amalgamation regulations
On and from the date specified in a regulation made under
section 12 (1) (d) for the amalgamation of 2 or more major event
authorities:
(a) each major event authority amalgamated by the regulation is
dissolved, and
(b) the chief executive of each major event authority amalgamated
by the regulation ceases to hold office, and
(c) the members of any board governed authority involved in the
amalgamation (other than any chief executive) cease to hold
office, and:
(i) if the amalgamated major event authority is a board
governed authority, are eligible (if otherwise qualified) to
be appointed as members of the board of the amalgamated
major event authority, and
(ii) are not entitled to be paid any compensation by reason of
ceasing to hold office, and
(d) the assets, rights and liabilities of each amalgamating major event
authority are transferred to the amalgamated major event
authority, and
(e) Part 2 applies to that transfer.
(3) Name change regulations
On and from the date specified in a regulation made under
section 12 (1) (b) changing the name of a major event authority, Part 3
applies to that change of name.
(4) Change of governance regulations
On and from the date specified in a regulation made under
section 12 (1) (c) (i) changing the nature of governance of a major event
authority from board governance to chief executive governance, the
members of the board of the major event authority (other than the chief
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executive) cease to hold office, but are not entitled to be paid any
compensation by reason of ceasing to hold office.
(5) Effect on compensation rights
Nothing in this Schedule affects any compensation rights to which the
chief executive of a dissolved or amalgamating major event authority
may be entitled under Part 3.1 of the Public Sector Employment and
Management Act 2002 as a consequence of ceasing to hold office as
such.
Part 2 Transfers
4 Vesting of undertaking in transferee
(1) When any assets, rights or liabilities are transferred by a transfer to
which this Part applies, the following provisions have effect:
(a) the assets of the transferor vest in the transferee by virtue of this
clause and without the need for any further conveyance, transfer,
assignment or assurance,
(b) the rights or liabilities of the transferor become by virtue of this
clause the rights or liabilities of the transferee,
(c) all proceedings relating to the assets, rights or liabilities
commenced before the transfer by or against the transferor or a
predecessor of the transferor and pending immediately before the
transfer are taken to be proceedings pending by or against the
transferee,
(d) any act, matter or thing done or omitted to be done in relation to
the assets, rights or liabilities before the transfer by, to or in
respect of the transferor is (to the extent to which that act, matter
or thing has any force or effect) taken to have been done or
omitted by, to or in respect of the transferee,
(e) the transferee has all the entitlements and obligations of the
transferor in relation to those assets, rights and liabilities that the
transferor would have had but for the regulation giving rise to the
transfer, whether or not those entitlements and obligations were
actual or potential at the time the regulation took effect,
(f) a reference in any Act, in any instrument made under any Act or
in any document of any kind to the transferor or a predecessor of
the transferor is (to the extent to which it relates to those assets,
rights or liabilities) taken to include a reference to the transferee.
(2) The operation of this clause is not to be regarded:
(a) as a breach of contract or confidence or otherwise as a civil
wrong, or
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(b) as a breach of any contractual provision prohibiting, restricting or
regulating the assignment or transfer of assets, rights or
liabilities, or
(c) as giving rise to any remedy by a party to an instrument, or as
causing or permitting the termination of any instrument, because
of a change in the beneficial or legal ownership of any asset, right
or liability, or
(d) as an event of default under any contract or other instrument.
(3) No attornment to the transferee by a lessee from the transferor is
required.
(4) A transfer is subject to the terms and conditions of the regulation giving
rise to the transfer.
(5) No compensation is payable to any person or body in connection with a
transfer to which this Part applies except to the extent (if any) to which
the regulation giving rise to the transfer so provides.
5 Date of vesting
A transfer to which this Part applies takes effect on the date specified in
the regulation giving rise to the transfer.
6 Consideration for vesting
The Minister may, by order in writing, specify the consideration on
which a transfer to which this Part applies is made and the value or
values at which the assets, rights or liabilities are transferred.
7 No duties on transfer
Duty under the Duties Act 1997 is not chargeable for or in respect of:
(a) a transfer to which this Part applies, or
(b) anything certified by the Minister as having been done in
consequence of such a transfer (for example, the transfer or
conveyance of an interest in land).
8 Confirmation of vesting
(1) The Minister may, by notice in writing, confirm a transfer of particular
assets, rights or liabilities by operation of this Part.
(2) Such a notice is conclusive evidence of that transfer.
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Part 3 Changes of name
9 Name changes do not affect status of service
A change of name of a major event authority by a regulation does not
operate:
(a) to create a new legal entity, or
(b) to prejudice or affect the identity of the body corporate
constituted as a major event authority or its continuity as a body
corporate, or
(c) to affect the property, or the rights or obligations, of the major
event authority, or
(d) to render defective any legal proceedings by or against the major
event authority,
and any legal proceedings that could have been continued or
commenced by or against the major event authority by its former name
may be continued or commenced by or against it by its new name.
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Schedule 3 Savings, transitional and other
provisions
Part 1 General
1 Regulations
(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional
nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:
this Act
(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from
the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.
(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that
is earlier than the date of its publication on the NSW legislation website,
the provision does not operate so as:
(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the
State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person
existing before the date of its publication, or
(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an
authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to
be done before the date of its publication.
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Amendment of Sporting Venues (Invasions) Act 2003 No 44 Schedule 4
Schedule 4 Amendment of Sporting Venues
(Invasions) Act 2003 No 44
[1] Section 3 Interpretation
Omit "Rugby World Cup venues" from the note to the definition of designated
sporting venue in section 3 (1).
Insert instead "major event venues".
[2] Section 7
Omit the section. Insert instead:
7 Part extended to all major event venues
(1) A person who is banned under any of the following provisions
from entering a major event venue as a result of a contravention
of a law at a major event match is (while so banned) also banned
from entering any other venue of that major event on any day that
a major event match is held there:
(a) this Part,
(b) clause 16 of the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney
Football Stadium By-law 2009,
(c) clause 18 of the Sydney Olympic Park Authority
Regulation 2007.
(2) For the purposes of this Part:
major event has the same meaning as in the Major Events
Act 2009.
major event match means a match of a major event that is a
sporting competition.
major event venue means a sporting venue in the State that is the
venue for a major event match.
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