South Australia: Adelaide Show Grounds (Regulations and By-laws) Act 1929 (SA)

South Australia Adelaide Show Grounds (Regulations and By-laws) Act 1929 An Act to empower the Governor to make regulations and the Council of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia Incorporated, to make by-laws for certain purposes. Contents 1 Short title 2 Interpretation 2A Closing times for show grounds 3 Power to make by-laws 4 Mode of making by-laws 5 Confirmation of by-laws 6 Conditions precedent 7 Non-application of section 38 of Acts Interpretation Act 8 Saving of other provisions Legislative history The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the Adelaide Show Grounds (Regulations and By-laws) Act 1929. 2—Interpretation In this Act— show grounds means the lands leased to the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia Incorporated pursuant to the Adelaide Show Grounds Act 1913; Society means the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia Incorporated. 2A—Closing times for show grounds (1) Subject to subsection (2) the show grounds must be closed to members of the public at the times prescribed by regulations made by the Governor. (2) The Society may, with the written approval of the Minister, open the show grounds to the public at times when they are required to be closed by the regulations. (3) The Minister must cause notice of his or her approval under subsection (2) to be published in the Gazette at least 14 days before the show grounds are opened under that subsection. 3—Power to make by-laws The Council of the Society may make by-laws for all or any of the following purposes: (a) to prohibit persons from trespassing on the show grounds; (b) to prevent damage to the show grounds and any buildings and chattels thereon; (c) to regulate vehicular and pedestrian traffic on the show grounds; (d) to regulate the parking, ranking, and arranging of vehicles on the show grounds; (e) to secure orderly conduct on the part of all persons on the show grounds; (f) to restrict or prohibit the consumption of alcoholic liquor on the show grounds; (g) to impose penalties, recoverable summarily, not exceeding forty dollars for the breach of any by-law; (h) empowering the Society to recover summarily compensation for any damage done to the show grounds or any building or chattel thereon. 4—Mode of making by-laws No by-law shall be made— (a) except at a meeting of the Council of the Society of which at least fourteen days' prior notice in writing has been given to each member of the Council specifying the by-laws intended to be proposed; (b) unless a majority of all the members of the Council vote at the meeting in favour of the proposed by-law. 5—Confirmation of by-laws (1) Every by-law— (a) shall be submitted to the Governor for confirmation and shall be of no force until confirmed; (b) after confirmation shall be published in the Gazette at the expense of the Society; (c) shall, subject to subsection (2) hereof, take effect from the date of that publication or from any later date fixed by the by-law; (d) shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after the said publication if Parliament is in session and if not, within fourteen days after the commencement of the next session of Parliament. (2) If either House of Parliament passes a resolution disallowing any by-law of which resolution notice has been given at any time within fourteen sitting days of that House after the by-law has been laid before it the by-law shall thereupon cease to have any effect, but without affecting the validity or curing the invalidity of anything done or committed in the meantime. This subsection shall apply although all the fourteen sitting days, or some of them, do not occur in the same session of Parliament as that in which the by-law is laid before the House. (3) When a resolution has been passed as mentioned in subsection (2) hereof notice of the resolution shall forthwith be published in the Gazette. 6—Conditions precedent When a by-law has been confirmed by the Governor and published in the Gazette all conditions precedent to the making thereof shall be conclusively deemed to have been fulfilled. 7—Non-application of section 38 of Acts Interpretation Act The provisions of section 38 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1915 shall not apply to by‑laws made under this Act. 8—Saving of other provisions No by-law made under this Act shall affect any provision of any other Act or of the common law. Legislative history Notes • For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au. Formerly Adelaide Show Grounds (By-laws) Act 1929 Principal Act and amendments New entries appear in bold. Year|No|Title|Assent|Commencement| 1929|1905|Adelaide Show Grounds (By-laws) Act 1929|30.10.1929|30.10.1929| 1993|87|Statutes Repeal and Amendment (Places of Public Entertainment) Act 1993|27.10.1993|3.4.1995 (Gazette 23.2.1995 p422)| Provisions amended since 3 February 1976 New entries appear in bold. Provision|How varied|Commencement| Long title|amended by 87/1993 s 5|3.4.1995| s 1|substituted by 87/1993 s 6|3.4.1995| s 2A|inserted by 87/1993 s 7|3.4.1995|