Western Australian Consolidated Acts

JENNACUBBINE SPORTS COUNCIL (INCORPORATED) ACT 1965 - PREAMBLE

Preamble

WHEREAS:

            (a)         the Jennacubbine Race Club (in this Act called “the Club”) was incorporated by that name under the Associations Incorporation Act 1895 , on the twenty-fourth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty- three;

            (b)         the rules of the Club provide inter alia that the President and other officers of the Club and members of its Committee shall retire from office annually and further provide that no member of the Club is competent to vote on any occasion whatever or to enjoy any privileges as a member until he has paid his subscription to the Club for the current year;

            (c)         it appears that — 

                  (i)         the last general meeting of the members of the Club was held in or about the year nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and no Committee of the Club has since been elected; and

                  (ii)         no persons had paid any subscriptions to the Club since that year or have any horse race meetings been conducted by the Club since that year;

            (d)         various residents of the district of Jennacubbine, many of whom are former members of the Club are desirous of forming an association and incorporating it under the Associations Incorporation Act 1895 , by the name of the Jennacubbine Sports Council (in this Act called “the Council”) for the purpose of using — 

                  (i)         the land owned by the Club and formerly used by it as a race course, as a playing ground for sport in general and in particular for the playing of cricket, football, tennis, hockey and basketball; and

                  (ii)         the other assets of the Club towards the advancement of sport in the district of Jennacubbine; and

            (e)         it is deemed proper in the circumstances that the Club be dissolved and its assets vested in the Council when the Council is incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1895 .

Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —