Registered Clubs Amendment (Exception to 5 Kilometre Rule) Regulation 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Registered Clubs Amendment (Exception to

5 Kilometre Rule) Regulation 2015

under the

Registered Clubs Act 1976

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Registered Clubs Act 1976.

TROY GRANT, MP

Minister for Racing

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to allow a registered club to provide shelter, relief or other forms of assistance in an emergency to persons whose ordinary place of residence is within a 5 kilometre radius of the club premises. Such persons are ordinarily ineligible for admission as temporary members of the registered club under section 30 (3B) of the Registered Clubs Act 1976.

This Regulation is made under the Registered Clubs Act 1976, including sections 30 (3C) and 73 (the general regulation-making power).

Registered Clubs Amendment (Exception to 5 Kilometre Rule) Regulation 2015 [NSW]

Registered Clubs Amendment (Exception to 5 Kilometre Rule)

Regulation 2015

under the

Registered Clubs Act 1976

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Registered Clubs Amendment (Exception to 5 Kilometre Rule)
Regulation 2015.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Registered Clubs Regulation 2015

Clause 29A

Insert after clause 29:

29A

Exception to 5 kilometre rule—emergencies

(1)

Section 30 (3B) of the Act does not apply in relation to a person who is admitted as a temporary member of a registered club if the club is providing shelter, relief or other forms of assistance to that person in an emergency.

(2)

For the purposes of this clause, emergency means an emergency due to an actual or imminent occurrence (such as fire, flood, storm, earthquake, heatwave, explosion, terrorist act, accident, epidemic or warlike action) which endangers, or threatens to endanger, the safety or health of persons living within a 5 kilometre radius of the club premises at which any such shelter, relief or other forms of assistance is provided.