An Act to incorporate the Minister administering this Act as a corporation sole; to vest in the Corporation the Sydney International Shooting Centre; to enable other land to be vested in the Corporation; to constitute the Sydney International Shooting Centre Trust; and for other purposes.
This Act is the Sporting Venues Management Act 2002.
Except as provided by subsection (2), this Act commences on 30 June 2002.
Part 3 and Schedule 2 commence on a day to be appointed by proclamation.
In this Act:
The Minister is, for the purpose of exercising those functions expressed to be conferred or imposed on the Corporation by or under this or any other Act, hereby incorporated as a corporation sole with the corporate name “Minister administering the Sporting Venues Management Act 2002”.
The Corporation:
(a) has perpetual succession, and
(b) is to have an official seal, and
(c) may take proceedings, and be proceeded against, in its corporate name, and
(d) may do and suffer all things that a body corporate generally may, by law, do and suffer and that are necessary for or incidental to the purposes for which the Corporation is constituted, and
(e) is, for the purposes of any Act, a statutory body representing the Crown.
The objects of the Corporation are:
(a) to maintain and improve the corporate lands, and
(b) to encourage the use and enjoyment of the corporate lands by the public and such clubs, associations or other bodies as the Corporation considers appropriate, and
(c) to make all reasonable attempts to ensure that any new development carried out on corporate lands accords with best practice environmental and planning standards.
The functions of the Corporation are:
(a) to manage and develop the corporate lands in accordance with the Corporation’s objects, and
(b) to permit the use of the whole or any part of the corporate lands for activities of a sporting or recreational nature, including the use of those lands for major events and general community access, and
(c) to ensure that proper asset management plans are in place and are implemented for the corporate lands, and
(d) to enter into any contract or arrangement with any person for the purpose of promoting the objects of the Corporation.
The Corporation may, in such manner and subject to such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, sell, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of or deal with…