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Reserves Act 1977

Classification and management of reserves - Special provisions as to recreation reserves set apart for racecourse purposes

65: Bylaws

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"Rules for recreation reserves used for racing"

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The people in charge of a recreation reserve used for racing can make rules, as long as they follow section 108. You need to know these rules can be about how the people in charge run their meetings. They can also be about keeping some areas of the reserve closed to the public so they can plant grass or make improvements. When the reserve is used for racing, the rules can say who can enter, how much they have to pay, and who can bring horses or vehicles onto the reserve. The people in charge can give a racing club control of the reserve when it is used for racing, and they can set conditions for this. They can also make rules about how much people have to pay to set up booths or stalls to sell things. The rules must be advertised in a newspaper and posted on the reserve so you can read them. These rules are considered secondary legislation under the Legislation Act 2019, and some parts of the Local Government Act 2002 apply to them, even though they were not made by a local authority. If a reserve was already being used for racing before this law started, it is still considered a recreation reserve set apart for racecourse purposes, and these rules apply to it.

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Part 3Classification and management of reserves
Special provisions as to recreation reserves set apart for racecourse purposes

65Bylaws

  1. The administering body of any recreation reserve set apart for racecourse purposes may from time to time, subject to section 108, make bylaws with respect to all or any of the following matters:

  2. regulating its own proceedings:
    1. excluding the public from such parts of the reserve as it may be found necessary and desirable to plant, improve, lay down, or renew in grass:
      1. prescribing the conditions on which persons shall have access to or be excluded from the reserve when it is used for racing purposes, and for regulating the price for admission of persons to the reserve or to any stand erected thereon and for the admission of horses and vehicles of any description to the reserve on those occasions:
        1. granting the exclusive use and control of the reserve, or of any part set apart as a racecourse, to any racing club when the reserve is used for racing purposes, and prescribing the terms and conditions on which that use and control shall be granted:
          1. regulating the charges that may be made for the occupation of portions of the reserve for the erection of booths or stalls for the sale of refreshments, merchandise, goods, or chattels:
            1. the preservation of order on the reserve during race meetings.

              1. All bylaws made under subsection (1) shall be notified once by advertisement as to the nature thereof in 1 or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the reserve is situate, and by being posted on some conspicuous place on the reserve so that they may be easily read.

              2. Bylaws made under this section are secondary legislation for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2019, but section 161A of the Local Government Act 2002 applies as if they were made by a local authority.

              3. In this section and in sections 66 to 70 the expression recreation reserve set apart for racecourse purposes includes a reserve which immediately before the commencement of this Act was a reserve set apart for racecourse purposes.

              Compare
              • 1953 No 69 s 35
              Notes
              • Section 65(2A): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).