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WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SPORTS CENTRE TRUST ACT 1986 - SECT 9

9 .         General powers

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

        (2)         Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), or any other provision of this Act by which a power is conferred on the Trust, the Trust has power — 

            (a)         to use or authorise the use of the Centre for activities of a sporting, recreational, educational or cultural nature or for the purposes of public entertainment or any public purpose approved by the Minister;

            (b)         to provide or permit any other persons to provide refreshments for consumption by persons using or visiting the Centre and to apply for, hold and dispose of any licence, permit or other authority required in connection with the provision of those refreshments;

            (c)         to acquire property or an interest in or over property by purchase, lease, licence or exchange or in any other manner and to dispose of property or an interest in or over property by sale, lease, licence or exchange or in any other manner;

            (d)         to carry out or arrange to be carried out work in connection with the maintenance, development and improvement, alteration and maintenance of property and, in particular, for the purpose of making the Centre suitable for the activities referred to in paragraph (a);

            (e)         to provide tuition and instruction for the purpose mentioned in section 8(1)(a)(iii);

            (f)         to promote and provide exhibits, lectures, films, publications and other types of instruction relating to sporting and recreational activities;

            (g)         subject to the regulations, to charge and receive fees or other sums for, or in connection with — 

                  (i)         the hire or use of the Centre or any other Trust property;

                  (ii)         admission to the Centre or parking of vehicles at the Centre; or

                  (iii)         any service provided, article sold, permission given or licence granted by or on behalf of the Trust;

            (h)         to enter into any contract or arrangement with any person including a partnership or arrangement for the sharing of profits;

                  (i)         to appoint or engage agents or attorneys;

            (j)         to act as agent for other persons; and

            (k)         to do anything incidental to any of its powers.

        (3)         In subsection (2)(d), the reference to work includes — 

            (a)         the development or redevelopment of an area of land;

            (b)         the construction, reconstruction or demolition of any building; and

            (c)         the provision of spectator accommodation, either seating or standing or both.

        (4)         Where the Trust acquires property by gift, bequest or devise the Trust may — 

            (a)         agree to and carry out the conditions of the gift, bequest or devise; and

            (b)         retain the property in the form in which it is acquired, subject to any condition agreed to by the Trust in relation to the property.

        (5)         The rule of law against remoteness of vesting does not apply to a condition to which the Trust has agreed under subsection (4)(a).

        (6)         Where any property has been vested in the Trust the operation of subsection (2)(c) in relation to that property is subject to the conditions upon which the land was vested in the Trust and, in the case of land to which the Land Administration Act 1997 applies, to the provisions of that Act.

        [Section 9 amended by No. 4 of 1997 s. 4; No. 31 of 1997 s. 141.]



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