Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948
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PART VII Miscellaneous. | ||
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Facilities for games or other recreation. |
48.—(1) A sanitary authority may provide facilities for games or other recreation and for that purpose may, in particular, do all or any of the following: | |
(a) acquire land in their district or at a convenient distance therefrom, | ||
(b) appropriate land held by them which is not required for the purpose for which it is held, | ||
(c) themselves manage any land so acquired or appropriated, | ||
(d) provide equipment, appliances, boats, animals and other things for games or recreation on any land so acquired or appropriated and make charges for the use of such things, | ||
(e) let any land so acquired or appropriated to any person for use for games or other recreation, | ||
(f) contribute, subject to such conditions (if any) as they think proper, to the provision of land in their district or at a convenient distance therefrom for use for games or other recreation and to the provision of equipment for games or other recreation on any such land. | ||
(2) A sanitary authority may make bye-laws for the regulation of any land managed by them under this section. | ||
(3) A sanitary authority may on such days as they think fit (not exceeding twelve days in any one year nor four consecutive days on any one occasion) close to the public any land managed by them under this section or any part thereof and grant the use of such land or such part, either gratuitously or for payment, to any person for the purposes of any sport or entertainment. | ||
(4) In this section— | ||
the word “land” includes land covered with water and tidal lands within the meaning of the Foreshore Act, 1933 (No. 12 of 1933); | ||
the word “equipment” includes buildings and other structures and also the laying out of land in any manner suitable for games or other recreation. |