Wellington Show Ground Act 1929 (NSW)

Wellington Show Ground Act 1929 No 54

An Act to empower the Trustees of the Show Ground at Wellington to purchase additional land; to declare the trusts of the land held or to be held by them; to provide for the appointment of new trustees; to empower the trustees for the time being to mortgage the land so held or purchased; to repeal the Wellington Show Ground Act 1895; and for purposes connected therewith.

1 Name of Act This Act may be cited as Wellington Show Ground Act 1929.

2 Repeal The Wellington Show Ground Act 1895 is hereby repealed.

3 Trusts of lands The land described in the First Schedule to this Act, being the area acquired by the trustees of the Wellington Show Ground in pursuance of section three of the Act hereby repealed, together with the strip of land of an area of one acre one rood twenty-four perches and comprised in Crown Grant, Volume 1784, Folio 103, shall be held by the trustees for the use and general purposes of the Wellington Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Society, and for the purpose of a sports ground, and for such other purposes in connection with public recreation as the said trustees or their successors appointed in pursuance of the provisions of this Act may, with the approval of the Minister, sanction.

4 Appointment of new trustees The Minister shall as soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act appoint new trustees in respect of the said lands in place of the trustees now in office. The appointment of such new trustees shall take effect from the date of notification thereof in the Gazette. The trustees in office at the commencement of this Act shall be eligible for reappointment.

5 Powers of trustees (1) The trustees for the time being are empowered, subject to the consent of the Minister first being obtained, to apply their funds to the purchase of land in the vicinity of the said lands. (2) Any land purchased in pursuance of the provisions of this section shall be held by the trustees for the time being for the same uses and purposes as those referred to in section three of this Act.