Victorian Arts Centre Act 1979

The Trust has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connexion with the performance of its functions.

Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) the powers of the Trust include power—

to purchase or take or hire or to accept on deposit or loan any personal property for use in or in connexion with the Centre;

subject to Part 3, to grant leases of or licences to use any part of the Centre;

to grant leases of or licences to use any other land of the Trust;

to carry on in the Centre or to enter into contracts or arrangements with any person to carry on any business which in the opinion of the Trust will improve the facilities and amenities of the Centre.

to be a member of a body corporate, association, partnership, trust or other body;

to form, or participate in the formation of, a body corporate, association, partnership, trust or other body;

to enter into a joint venture with another person or other persons;

to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for, or in connection with, a joint venture in the performance of the functions of the Trust;

to acquire and install any equipment or apparatus which in the opinion of the Trust improves the facilities of the Centre;

to apply for and hold any licence or permit under the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 or any other Act;

to register, purchase or apply for or otherwise acquire either wholly or in part any invention, copyright, trade-mark or other mark or design, patent, patent rights and privileges, licences, concessions or other like rights which in the opinion of the Trust will be of assistance to the Trust in carrying out its functions and to sell, dispose of, use, exercise and develop such rights or inventions or to grant licences or privileges in respect thereof;

to enter into any contracts, agreements or arrangements with—

the Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria constituted under the National Gallery of Victoria Act 1966; or

any other person or body, whether corporate or unincorporate—

to install, use, work and maintain film cameras and projectors and broadcasting and television apparatus, and to grant the right of installing, using, working and maintaining the same within the areas under its control upon such terms and conditions and subject to the payment of such charges as may be determined by the Trust;

to print or reproduce in any manner or form and to publish or to arrange for the printing or reproduction or publishing of plays, music, programmes, posters and advertisements and such other material as the Trust may deem expedient and to acquire the copyright therein;

to commission plays, compositions, musicals, ballets, operas or other works;

to purchase and operate or let on hire theatre, cinema or other equipment;

to establish and operate a public performing arts museum;

to establish and operate a public art gallery;

to take on lease any land which in the opinion of the Trust is required to facilitate the carrying out of its functions under this Act;

to accept appointment as a committee of management of Crown lands;

to solicit and accept and to hold and administer gifts, bequests or devises of money, securities or other property of whatsoever character for the purposes of carrying out its functions, and with the approval of the Treasurer to sell or exchange or invest or re-invest such moneys, securities or other property in such investments as the Treasurer may from time to time determine; and

to do all things necessary or convenient to be done in connexion with, or as incidental to, the performance of its objects.