Major Events Act 2014

A person commits an offence if—

the person goes into, or stays in, a part of an event venue; and

the person does not have the permission of the event organiser or venue manager to go into, or stay in, that part of the venue.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

A person commits an offence if—

the person goes onto, or stays on, the playing surface at an event venue; and

the person does not have the permission of the event organiser or venue manager to go onto, or stay on, the playing surface.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

An offence against subsection (2) is a strict liability offence.

For this section, a person is taken to have the permission of the event organiser or venue manager to go into, or stay in, a part of an event venue or go onto, or stay on, the playing surface of an event venue if the person is—

an authorised person; or

competing or participating in the major event or important sporting event in the event venue.

In this section:

playing surface, at an event venue—

means the area on which a sport is to be, or is being, played as part of the major event or important sporting event; and

includes—

any adjacent area required for the sport to be played; and

any area reasonably incidental to the sport being played.

Examples—par (b) (ii)

 players’ dressing room

 other field in the venue used by the players for warming up