Hawkesbury Racecourse Act 1996 (NSW)

Hawkesbury Racecourse Act 1996 No 74

An Act to provide for the Hawkesbury Racecourse to be continued as a public reserve for horseracing and other purposes; to provide for the assets, rights and liabilities of the Hawkesbury Race Club to vest in a body corporate to be formed by the members of the club; and to repeal the Hawkesbury Racecourse Act of 1890.

1 Name of Act This Act is the Hawkesbury Racecourse Act 1996.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be appointed by proclamation.

3 Definitions In this Act: assets means any legal or equitable estates or interests (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent) in real or personal property of any description (including money), and includes securities, choses in action and documents. Hawkesbury Racecourse means the land described in Schedule 1. liabilities means any liabilities, debts or obligations (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent). rights means all rights, powers, privileges and immunities (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent). the former club means the members of the unincorporated body known as the Hawkesbury Race Club. the former trustee, in relation to the Hawkesbury Racecourse, means the trustee for the Racecourse holding office under Division 4 of Part 5 of the Crown Lands Act 1989 immediately before the commencement of this Act. the incorporated club means the body corporate declared by the Minister under this Act to be the incorporated Hawkesbury Race Club. the reserve trust means the reserve trust referred to in section 5.

4 Status of racecourse (1) The Hawkesbury Racecourse continues, on and from the repeal day, to be Crown land that is dedicated for the following purposes under the Crown Land Management Act 2016: (a) for use as a racecourse, (b) for use as a training ground, (c) for use as a sports ground, (d) for any other form of public amusement or public purpose (whether or not related to sports) that the Governor has, by order published in the Gazette (whether before or after the repeal day), declared to be a form of public amusement or public purpose for which the Racecourse or a specified part of the Racecourse is permitted to be used.