Sporting Venues Authorities Regulation 2019

This Regulation is the Sporting Venues Authorities Regulation 2019.

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

Note.

This Regulation repeals and replaces the Sporting Venues Authorities Regulation 2014, which would otherwise be repealed on 1 September 2019 by section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.

In this Regulation—

authorised officer, in relation to a provision of this Regulation, means a person authorised by Venues NSW for the purpose of that provision.

Club card means either of the following—

a Regular Member’s Club card,

a Double Gold Member’s Club card.

Double Gold Member means a person who holds Double Gold Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Gold Member means a person who holds Gold Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Guest card means any of the following—

a Regular Member’s Guest card,

a Double Gold Member’s Guest card,

a Life Member’s Guest card.

Honorary Member means a person who holds Honorary Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Junior Gold Member means a person who holds Junior Gold Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Junior Regular Member means a person who holds Junior Regular Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Life Member means a person who holds Life Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

liquor has the same meaning as in the Liquor Act 2007.

membership card means a membership card issued by Venues NSW.

membership year means a period of 12 months commencing on 1 October.

Platinum Member means a person who holds Platinum Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Platinum Membership card—see clause 50(3).

Regular Member means a person who holds Regular Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

SCG Member means any of the following—

a Regular Member,

an SCG XI Member,

an SCG Playing Member,

a Gold Member,

a Double Gold Member,

a Platinum Member,

a Junior Regular Member,

a Junior Gold Member,

an Honorary Member,

a Life Member.

SCG Playing Member means a person who holds SCG Playing Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

SCG XI Member means a person who holds SCG XI Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

the Act means the Sporting Venues Authorities Act 2008.

ticket of admission means any of the following—

a ticket of admission issued by Venues NSW,

a Guest card issued by Venues NSW,

a Club card issued by Venues NSW.

Note.

The Act and the Interpretation Act 1987 contain definitions and other provisions that affect the interpretation and application of this Regulation.

Notes included in this Regulation do not form part of this Regulation.

This Part does not apply to the scheduled lands.

Note.

Parts 4–10 provide for the rules and prohibitions on entry relating to the scheduled lands.

A sporting venues authority may, by notice in writing, impose conditions on persons entering or using land, or a facility on land, vested in or managed by the sporting venues authority.

The notice must be—

displayed in, or at the boundary or entrance to, the land or facility to which the conditions relate, or

given to persons entering or using the land or facility.

Without limiting subclause (1), the conditions may deal with the following—

designating points of entry to the land or facility,

closing the land or facility to the public,

reserving the land or facility for a particular use or for the use of particular persons or bodies or a particular sector of the public,

imposing fees and charges on persons entering or using the land or facility,

regulating or prohibiting the use of, or the carrying out of activities (including driving vehicles) in respect of, the land or facility.

A ranger or police officer may give a direction to a person to leave land, or a facility on land, vested in or managed by a sporting venues authority (a direction to leave) if, in the opinion of the ranger or police officer, the person is—

trespassing, or

committing an offence, or

contravening a condition of entry or use, or

contravening the Act or this Regulation, or

causing a nuisance or inconvenience to another person in the sporting venue.

A person who fails to comply with a direction to leave given in accordance with this clause is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

A person is not guilty of an offence under subclause (2) unless it is established that the ranger or police officer warned the person that failure to comply with the direction to leave was an offence.

A person who fails to comply with a direction to leave may be removed from the land or facility by a ranger or police officer.

Venues NSW or a ranger may call in the aid of a police officer for the removal of a person from land, or a facility on land, vested in or managed by a sporting venues authority.

Reasonable force may be used to effect the person’s removal.

A person who has been given a direction to leave, or who has been removed from the land or facility under subclause (4), must not re-enter the land or facility for a period of 48 hours after the direction was given or after the removal, whichever is later.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

A sporting venues authority may, by notice in writing given to a person, ban the person from entering land, or a facility on land, vested in or managed by the authority.

The notice must specify the period of the ban, which must not exceed 12 months.

A sporting venues authority may only ban a person under this clause if the person—

has been removed, under clause 5 (4), from land or a facility vested in or managed by the authority, or

has been convicted of an offence under clause 5 (2) or (6) in relation to land or a facility vested in or managed by the authority, or

has committed an offence under another law in relation to land or a facility vested in or managed by the authority, or

is subject to a ban, under the Sporting Venues (Invasions) Act 2003, from a designated sporting venue within the meaning of that Act.

A person who is banned under this clause from entering land or a facility must not enter the land or facility concerned during the period of the ban.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

For the purposes of 21C(5)(d) of the Act, a member of an advisory committee may be appointed for a maximum term of 3 years and may be re-appointed, but only if the member’s total term of office will not exceed 6 years.

This clause does not apply to a member who is appointed to a membership advisory committee under section 21E(3)(a) of the Act.

In this Part, a reference to the scheduled lands includes a reference to—

the whole of the scheduled lands, and

a part of the scheduled lands, and

a grandstand or building on the scheduled lands.

Venues NSW may determine entrance charges for admission to the scheduled lands.

Venues NSW may—

set aside a part of a grandstand on the scheduled lands for reserved seats, and

determine an additional entrance charge for those seats.

A person must not enter the scheduled lands unless the person—

has paid the entrance charge determined by Venues NSW, if any, or

is in lawful possession of a current membership card authorising entry, or

is in lawful possession of a ticket of admission authorising entry, or

has the approval of Venues NSW to do so.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

Venues NSW may determine conditions of entry to the scheduled lands and is to exhibit those conditions—

on signs at or near the entrance to those lands, and

in a prominent place on Venues NSW’s website.

A person must not breach the conditions of entry.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.