SOUTH AUSTRALIA
1959 REGULATIONS UNDER THE RECREATION GROUNDS
(REGULATIONS) ACT
REGULATIONS UNDER THE RECREATION GROUNDS (REGULATIONS)
ACT, 1931
1959 Regulations under the Recreation Grounds (Regulations)
Act
being
Gaz. 24 September 1959, p. 767
as varied by
No. 3 of 1986: Gaz. 9 January 1986, p. 52
1. No person who enters the oval when any cricket or football match, or other sport or game, is to be played or held for which a charge of admission has been fixed or approved of by the council shall enter the oval except by such gates or turnstiles as have been set apart for the purpose.
2. No person shall at any time enter or having entered shall remain in the oval without paying such charges for admission as may from time to time be fixed or approved by the council, or producing a medal, token, ticket, or pass of admission which has been duly issued by the council, or by an association or body authorized by the council in that behalf, and which medal, ticket, or pass he is then entitled to use.
3. No person shall, at any time, enter, or having entered, shall remain in any part of the public grand stand reserve, without paying such admission charges as shall from time to time be fixed by the council, or producing a medal, token, ticket, or pass of admission duly issued to him by the council or by an association or body authorized by the Council in that behalf, and which medal, token, ticket, or pass he is then entitled to use.
4. No person shall at any time, enter, or having entered, shall remain in the members’ reserve without being in lawful possession of, and producing upon demand made by the council or any authorized person a medal, token, ticket or pass of admission to the members’ reserve duly issued by the council.
5. (1) No person shall, for the purpose of gaining admission to the oval or any part thereof use, or attempt to use, any medal, token, ticket, or pass of admission which is marked "Not transferable," and which has not been issued to him by the council or by an association or body authorized by the council in that behalf.
(2) Any person who is found contravening the provisions of clause (1) of this regulation shall, upon demand made by an authorized person, forthwith surrender such medal, token, ticket, or pass to such authorized person.
6. No person to whom a medal, token, ticket, or pass of admission has been issued by the council, or by an association or body authorized by the council in that behalf entitling such person to entry to the oval, or any part thereof, and which said medal, token, ticket, or pass is marked "Not transferable," shall hand or transfer the same to any other person for use by him or by any other person, or shall permit or suffer such medal, token, ticket, or pass to be used by any other person, and no person shall, for the purposes of gaining admission to the oval or any part thereof, use any such medal, token, ticket, or pass which has not been issued to such person by the said council.
7. Every person who shall be in the portion of the oval known as the "Members’ Reserve" shall, upon demand by any gatekeeper or other authorized person, produce his medal, token, or ticket of admission, and if such person does not produce such medal, token, or ticket of admission, such person shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
8. No person holding a life member’s oval ticket or annual member’s oval ticket, issued by the council, upon leaving the oval at any time when "Pass Out" checks or tickets are issued which entitles the holder to re-enter the oval, or any part thereof, shall take or accept from the gatekeeper any such "Pass Out" check or ticket.
9. (1) No person who is not an authorized person shall either inside or outside the oval, sell or offer for sale any ticket or pass by which entry to the oval can be obtained, and no person shall either inside or outside the oval purchase any such ticket or pass from a person who is not a duly authorized official of the council.
(2) Clause (1) of this regulation shall not apply to the sale or purchase of league club tickets issued by the South Australian National Football League Limited or to any tickets sold by the promoters of any sport game or entertainment for which the council has granted the use of the oval, provided the form of such ticket has been submitted to and approved by the council.
10. No person shall climb or step or jump on or over any fence, gate, sight screen, hedge, or pickets around or within the oval, or cut, break, damage, or destroy any fence, gate, hedge, pickets, building, erection, grass surface, or flower plot, or other property of the council in the oval or pick any flowers or injure or uproot any shrub, plant, or tree planted in or growing thereon.
11. No person shall, without the written authority of the council post, stick, or place any poster, placard, bill, print, or paper, on any oval building, erection, or fence, or distribute same within the oval.
12. No person shall paint or write upon, carve into, or otherwise deface any wall, fence, gate, seat, or other building or erection the property of the council on the oval.
13. No person shall erect any booth, bar, shed, stall, or other structure within the oval without the permission in writing of the council for such erection first had and obtained.
14. No person shall offer for sale any food, confectionery, drink, or fruit, or any newspaper, pamphlet, programme, souvenir, dodger, or other publication, or any other article or commodity whatsoever without the permission of the council in writing first had and obtained.
15. Every person renting, or having any booth, bar, stall, stand, or other structure within the oval shall in regard thereto be under the order, direction, and control of the council or any authorized person.
16. (1) No person shall, without the permission of the council or an authorized person, bring any dog into the oval, or being the owner of a dog permit or suffer such dog to be or remain in the oval.
(2) Any dog found unlawfully in the oval may be removed therefrom.
17. (1) No person shall, without the permission of the council or any authorized person, drive or take into the oval or any part thereof any motor vehicle or horse-drawn vehicle, or bicycle, or any vehicle propelled by hand, or any perambulator, or any horse or other animal.
(2) The owner, driver, or person in charge of any motor vehicle, horse-drawn vehicle, or vehicle propelled by hand, or any bicycle or perambulator, or any horse which has been driven or taken into the oval without permission of the council shall, if requested by an authorized person, forthwith remove same from the oval.
(3) Vehicles of every description (including bicycles) and their drivers or riders, may be admitted to the oval upon such days and on such terms and conditions as the council may from time to time determine, and every person driving or controlling any vehicle so admitted shall obey the instructions of the council or any authorized person, and shall pay such charge for admission as may be fixed from time to time.
(4) In the case of vehicles bringing players, passengers, or goods to the oval, and which are
admitted without payment, the drivers of such vehicles, unless granted permission to remain, shall
forthwith, after dropping such players, passengers, or goods, remove their vehicles outside the oval.
18. No person shall ride, drive, propel, or otherwise take any vehicle of any description (including bicycles) on or along any footway, terrace, mound, or paved space between any grand stand and playing area, or upon such playing area, or in any other portion of the said oval not intended to be used for vehicular traffic without the permission of the council or an authorized person first had and obtained.
19. (1) No person shall enter or be upon the playing area during any part of a day upon which a cricket or football match is authorized by the council to be played on the oval.
(2) Clause (1) of this regulation shall not apply—
(a) | to council officials, or to players and umpires actually engaged in such match; or |
(b) | in the case of a football match, to ambulance attendants, or to trainers of the two clubs engaged in such match; or |
(c) | in the case of a foot race being run during an interval at a football match, to the runners and race officials; or |
(d) | to any person who enters the playing area through a gate opening on to such playing area, which gate, at the conclusion of play for the day, has been thrown open for use by spectators attending such match. |
20. (1) Whenever cricket or football players are engaged in practice on the oval no person who is not an employee of the council or a player, or official actually engaged in or supervising such practice, shall enter or be upon the playing area.
(2) No person who is within the playing area at any other time whatsoever when requested by an authorized person to leave the said playing area, shall refuse, or neglect to promptly comply with such request.
21. No person shall—
(a) | climb, stand, or be upon the roof of any building or shed, or upon any wall, barricade, verandah, or fence, or upon any tree or tree guard within the oval; or |
(b) | stand upon any seat; or |
(c) | when requested by an official of the council or by an authorized person not to do so, remain within or upon any gangway, steps, passage way, or aisle, or stand up in such a position as to interfere with the view of any person occupying a seat in any part of the oval. |
22. (1) No person shall, without permission of the council, enter into or be within any building, room, or enclosure, to which admittance is prohibited by placard, or writing affixed thereto.
(2) Whenever admittance to any building, room, or enclosure is restricted to certain person who are indicated by notice affixed thereto, no person who is not a person indicated by such notice shall, without permission of the council enter into or be within such building, room, or enclosure.
23. No person shall—
(a) | do or say anything calculated to hinder or interfere with the proper progress of any cricket or football match, or other game or sport, taking place on the oval, or wilfully obstruct, disturb, interrupt, or annoy any person in the proper use of the oval; |
(b) | smoke in any part of the oval where smoking is prohibited by notice affixed thereto, or displayed thereon; |
(c) | expectorate on the wall or floor of any stand or building or upon any seat or fixture within such stand or building, or upon any seat elsewhere within the oval; |
(d) | throw any stone or missile; |
(e) | deposit on the ground or elsewhere, except in such receptacle as is provided for the purpose, any broken glass, fruit skins, paper, or litter, or refuse of any kind; |
(f) | take up a collection or solicit alms unless authorized so to do by the council or an authorized person; |
(g) | walk or stand upon any flower bed, or walk or stand upon any lawn or other area whereon is exhibited a notice prohibiting traffic upon such lawn or other area. |
24. No person shall, in the portion of the oval known as the members’ reserve, or in any other portion of the oval which is not a public place within the meaning of the Police Act, 1936—
(a) | use any profane, indecent, or obscene language; or |
(b) | use any threatening, abusive, or insulting words, or behave in a threatening, abusive, or insulting manner; |
(c) | be found drunk; |
(d) | behave in a riotous or indecent manner. |
25. No person shall deliver a public address, or play any musical instrument, or sing, or perform any exhibition of the stage in the oval, or any part thereof, without the consent of the council or an authorized person first had and obtained.
26. No person who has been removed from the oval pursuant to the power conferred by regulation 27 shall return to the oval at any time of the day on which he is so removed.
27. (1) Any person who offends against any of the provisions of these regulations shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable upon conviction to a penalty not exceeding $200, recoverable summarily.
(2) Any person guilty of an offence against any of these regulations may be removed from the oval by any member of the Police Force or any special constable.
28. In these regulations, except where the subject matter or context or other provisions of these regulations require a different construction, the following terms in inverted commas have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them, that is to say—
"Authorized person" includes the town clerk of the corporation of the town of Thebarton, and the caretaker of the oval, and means any person holding an authority in writing from the council under the hands of the town clerk to do the acts or perform the duties set out in such authority.
"Caretaker" includes any person for the time being carrying out the duties of the caretaker.
"Council" means the council of the corporation of the town of Thebarton.
"Oval" means all that piece of land containing an area of 5.98 hectares or thereabouts being portion of section 47 of the hundred and county of Adelaide and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title register book, volume 2155, folio 71.
"Playing area" means the whole of that portion of the oval which is grassed and surrounded
or enclosed by the dwarf cyclone fence.
"Town clerk" includes any person, for the time being, carrying out the duties of town clerk
of the corporation of the town of Thebarton.
APPENDIX
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Regulation 27(1): | varied by 3, 1986, reg. 2 |