{"id":"nsw:act-1912-ctc","name":"City Tattersall’s Club Act of 1912","slug":"city-tattersall-s-club-act-of-1912","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"nsw","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"ctc of 1912","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":111987,"registerId":"nsw-act-1912-ctc-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Name of Act","content":"#### 1 Name of Act\n\n1 Name of Act\n\n> This Act may be cited for all purposes as the [City Tattersall’s Club Act of 1912](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1912-ctc).","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Definitions","content":"#### 2 Definitions\n\n2 Definitions\n\n> In this Act (unless otherwise indicated by the context):\n> \n> Annually adjusted, in respect of a monetary amount, means adjusted on 1 January each year in accordance with the annual percentage increase (if any) in the Consumer Price Index.\n> \n> Club means the said City Tattersall’s Club.\n> \n> Chairman means the chairman for the time being of the club.\n> \n> Committee means the committee for the time being of the club.\n> \n> Consumer Price Index means the number appearing in the Consumer Price Index (All Groups Index) for Sydney issued by the Australian Statistician.\n> \n> Member and members mean respectively a member and members for the time being of the club.\n> \n> **s 2:** Am 2003 No 78, Sch 1 \\[1\\].","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Present rules to be in force until adoption of new rules","content":"#### 3 Present rules to be in force until adoption of new rules\n\n3 Present rules to be in force until adoption of new rules\n\n> Until the passing and adopting of new rules in the manner hereinafter provided, the present rules of the club shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with this Act, be in force and binding on all the members.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4","sectionType":"section","heading":"Committee may call meetings for adoption of new rules or repeal or amendment of existing rules","content":"#### 4 Committee may call meetings for adoption of new rules or repeal or amendment of existing rules\n\n4 Committee may call meetings for adoption of new rules or repeal or amendment of existing rules\n\n> The Committee may, and upon the written requisition of not less than ten members, shall from time to time call meetings of the club, of which at least one month’s notice shall be given, for the adoption of new rules or the repeal or amendment of the existing rules, such meetings to be called in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as shall be provided by the rules of the club for the time being with respect to the calling of special general meetings thereof. At any such meeting of which not less than thirty members are present, the proposed new rules or repeals or amendments of existing rules shall be submitted for the consideration of the meeting, and the same may be approved, rejected, or amended by the majority of such meeting or any adjournment thereof, and upon being confirmed as hereinafter in this Act provided, shall so far as they are not inconsistent with this Act, become the rules of the club, and binding upon the members.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Chairman to convene meeting for purpose of confirming or rejecting change in rules","content":"#### 5 Chairman to convene meeting for purpose of confirming or rejecting change in rules\n\n5 Chairman to convene meeting for purpose of confirming or rejecting change in rules\n\n> After any change in the rules has been carried at any meeting of the club duly called for that purpose, the chairman shall convene another meeting of the club in the same manner as aforesaid, for the purpose of confirming or rejecting such change. At any such meeting at which not less than thirty members are present, the new rules, and the repeals and amendments of the existing rules which may have been carried at the former meeting, shall be put separately to the meeting, and shall thereupon be each confirmed or rejected, but no amendments shall be allowed, and such of the new rules, repeals, or amendments as are duly confirmed by a majority of the meeting shall there upon, so far as they are not inconsistent with this Act, be binding on all the members: Provided that any member disapproving of any change in the rules of the club may, within one calendar month of such confirmation, resign his membership, and shall thereupon be relieved from all liabilities which may by such new rules, alterations, or amendments be imposed upon the members.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"6","sectionType":"section","heading":"Power to borrow or to sell or grant leases","content":"#### 6 Power to borrow or to sell or grant leases\n\n6 Power to borrow or to sell or grant leases\n\n> It shall be lawful for the committee in the name of the chairman from time to time on behalf of and for the purposes of the said club, to borrow money by way of mortgage or other form of security of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments real or personal of the club, or by issue of debentures, secured upon the lands, tenements and hereditaments, real or personal, of the club, or in any other way upon the security of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments, real and personal of the club, or to sell or grant leases for any term of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, real or personal of the club, or any portion thereof, and in any way to realise or dispose of the money, goods and chattels, choses in action or other personalty of the club for and in furtherance of the objects of the club: Provided that no such borrowing, mortgage, issue of debentures, or sale or leasing of the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments in an amount, at one time or in one contract, exceeding $1,500,000 (annually adjusted) or in an amount, at one time or in one contract, that would result in the club’s interest-bearing liabilities exceeding $5,500,000 (annually adjusted) shall be made without the consent of the majority of a special general meeting of the club called to consider such proposed borrowing, mortgage, issue of debentures, sale or leasing.\n> \n> **s 6:** Am 2003 No 78, Sch 1 \\[2\\] \\[3\\].","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"7","sectionType":"section","heading":"Power to purchase or lease buildings or lands, and erect club premises thereon","content":"#### 7 Power to purchase or lease buildings or lands, and erect club premises thereon\n\n7 Power to purchase or lease buildings or lands, and erect club premises thereon\n\n> It shall be lawful for the committee in the name of the chairman, from time to time on behalf of the club to expend the funds of the club, now held by the club, or hereafter accruing or accumulating, in improving, repairing, renovating, or rebuilding the premises now occupied by the club, or in the purchase or lease of other buildings for the use of the members as club premises, or in the purchase or lease of land, and in the erection thereon of buildings for the use of the members as club premises, and in the improvement of such land and the repair or alteration of such premises; and also from time to time, in the name of the chairman, to invest the funds of the club now held by the club, or hereafter accruing or accumulating in bank deposits or Government debentures of any of the Australian States, or in loan on the mortgage of real property in the City of Sydney: Provided that no such purchase or lease shall be made, and no such buildings shall be erected, and no expenditure exceeding $1,500,000 (annually adjusted) at one time or in one contract shall be made in the improvement of such land or repair or alteration of such premises, and no investment of the funds of the club exceeding $1,500,000 (annually adjusted) shall be made without the consent in each case of a majority of a special general meeting called to consider the proposed purchase, lease, erection of buildings, improvement, repair alteration, or investment, as the case may be.\n> \n> **s 7:** Am 2003 No 78, Sch 1 \\[4\\].","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"8","sectionType":"section","heading":"Real and personal property of the club to be vested in the chairman","content":"#### 8 Real and personal property of the club to be vested in the chairman\n\n8 Real and personal property of the club to be vested in the chairman\n\n> All lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all personal chattels and effects which are now held by the club or by any person in trust for or on behalf of the club or the members thereof, shall immediately upon the passing of this Act become and be vested in and be held by the chairman and his successors in such office in trust for the club, and in the like manner as if such chairman and his respective successors in such office were in law a corporation sole, and as if the personalty were real estate and all lands, tenements, and hereditaments real and personal, and all personal chattels and effects which may hereafter be contracted for or be acquired by or belong to the club or the members thereof collectively may be conveyed, assigned, and assured to, and shall therefrom become vested in the chairman and his successors in such office in trust for the club, and in like manner as if such chairman and his successors in such office were in law a corporation sole, and as if the personalty were real estate.","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"9","sectionType":"section","heading":"Actions to be in the name of the chairman","content":"#### 9 Actions to be in the name of the chairman\n\n9 Actions to be in the name of the chairman\n\n> All actions, suits, proceedings, or prosecutions in any court, civil or criminal, and whether at law or in equity, commenced, instituted, prosecuted, or continued from and after the passing of this Act, by or on behalf of the club, against any person whatsoever, or against the club, whether such person be a member of the club or otherwise, shall and may be lawfully commenced, instituted, prosecuted, continued, or defended in the name of the chairman holding office at the time of the commencement of such action, suit, proceeding, or prosecution as nominal plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, or prosecutor, as the case may be, for and on behalf of the club and its members, and in all indictments and informations it shall be lawful to state the property of the club to be the property of the chairman, and any offence committed with intent to injure or defraud the club may in any prosecution for the same be stated or said to have been committed with intent to defraud or injure the chairman, and the death, resignation, or removal or other act of the chairman, in whose name any such proceeding shall have been commenced, shall not abate any such action, suit, proceeding, or prosecution, but the same may be continued and concluded in the same name.","sortOrder":8},{"sectionNumber":"10","sectionType":"section","heading":"Memorial in the chairman’s name to be recorded in the Supreme Court","content":"#### 10 Memorial in the chairman’s name to be recorded in the Supreme Court\n\n10 Memorial in the chairman’s name to be recorded in the Supreme Court\n\n> Within one calendar month after the passing of this Act a memorial in the name of the chairman, substantially in the form set forth in the Schedule to this Act, signed by the chairman, shall be recorded upon oath, which oath any justice of the peace or commissioner for affidavits is hereby empowered to take, by the secretary of the club in the Supreme Court of New South Wales; and whenever and as often as any new chairman shall be elected, a memorial in the name of such newly elected chairman in the same or a similar form, and signed by such newly elected chairman, shall, within one calendar month of the election of such new chairman, be recorded upon oath taken as aforesaid by the secretary of the club in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the production in any court of justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear evidence of any such memorial or any office or examined copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements in such memorial, or office, or examined copy, and the production in any such court or before any person having authority as aforesaid of the then last registered memorial or of any office or examined copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence that the chairman therein named is the chairman of the club.\n> \n> Note—\n> \n> See clause 27 of the Fourth Schedule to the [Supreme Court Act 1970](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1970-052).\n> \n> **s 10:** Note inserted by Parliamentary Counsel.","sortOrder":9},{"sectionNumber":"11","sectionType":"section","heading":"No action to be brought until memorial is recorded","content":"#### 11 No action to be brought until memorial is recorded\n\n11 No action to be brought until memorial is recorded\n\n> Until such memorial as hereinbefore first mentioned shall be recorded in the manner hereinbefore in this Act directed, no action, suit, prosecution, or other proceeding shall be brought by the club or any members thereof on behalf of the club in the name of the chairman.","sortOrder":10},{"sectionNumber":"12","sectionType":"section","heading":"Effect of judgment against the chairman","content":"#### 12 Effect of judgment against the chairman\n\n12 Effect of judgment against the chairman\n\n> Every judgment and every decree or order which shall be, at any time after the passing of this Act, obtained against the chairman on behalf of the club shall and may take effect and be enforced and execution thereon be issued against the property and effects of the club in the same manner as if such judgment, decree, or order had been made against the said club.","sortOrder":11},{"sectionNumber":"13","sectionType":"section","heading":"Expiry of Acts","content":"#### 13 Expiry of Acts\n\n13 Expiry of Acts\n\n> > (1) This Act and the [City Tattersall’s Club Act Amendment Act 1936](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1936-ctc) expire on a day to be appointed by proclamation published on the NSW legislation website.\n> \n> > (2) The day must be a day not earlier than both of the following:\n> > \n> > > (a) the day on which the club is incorporated under another Act of New South Wales or of the Commonwealth,\n> > \n> > > (b) 31 December 2005.\n> \n> **s 13:** Ins 2003 No 78, Sch 1 \\[5\\]. Am 2009 No 106, Sch 3.7.","sortOrder":12},{"sectionNumber":"sch","sectionType":"schedule","heading":"Schedule","content":"# sch Schedule\n\nSchedule\n\nCity Tattersall’s Club, Sydney.\n\nMEMORIAL to record the name of the Chairman of City Tattersall’s Club in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, pursuant to the [City Tattersall’s Club Act of 1912](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1912-ctc).\n\nThe name of the said Chairman is the said was duly elected to the office of Chairman on the day of A.D., 191 .\n\n  \nChairman.\n\nI, of , make oath and say that I am the Secretary of City Tattersall’s Club, and that I saw the foregoing memorial signed by the abovenamed Chairman, and that he was duly elected Chairman on the day abovementioned.\n\nSworn this day of one thousand nine hundred and , before me,","sortOrder":13}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The original 1912 Act was a straightforward governance statute establishing the club's unique legal structure. However, the 2003 amendments significantly expanded its scope by introducing: (1) monetary caps with annual CPI adjustment mechanisms on financial transactions, transforming it from a permissive statute to a regulatory one with complex compliance requirements; (2) a sunset clause (section 13) that makes the Act self-terminating upon modern incorporation; and (3) modernised definitions including statutory references to the Australian Statistician and Consumer Price Index. These changes shifted the Act from merely enabling the club's operations to actively regulating its financial governance and planning for its own obsolescence."},"complexity_factors":["Archaic language throughout ('tenements and hereditaments', 'choses in action', 'corporation sole') requiring translation for modern readers","Unique trust structure where property vests in an individual office-holder rather than the organisation itself","Two-stage voting process for rule changes (initial meeting + confirmation meeting) with specific quorum requirements","Multiple monetary thresholds ($1.5M and $5.5M) with annual CPI adjustment mechanism","Specific procedural requirements for Supreme Court registration of memorials with oath-taking formalities","Cross-reference to Supreme Court Act 1970 in section 10 note","Conditional expiry mechanism in section 13 requiring two separate conditions to be met"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a special law from 1912 that governs how City Tattersall's Club — a private members' club in Sydney — operates. The Act does several key things:\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Creates a unique legal structure**: Instead of the club owning property directly, everything is held \"in trust\" by the Chairman (the club's leader). The Chairman acts as a \"corporation sole\" — meaning the office itself is treated like a legal person that can own property and sue or be sued, even when the person holding the office changes.\n- **Sets rules for changing club rules**: Members can propose new rules or changes, but it requires two meetings — first to vote on the change, then a second meeting to confirm it. Members who disagree can quit within a month without being bound by the new rules.\n- **Controls big financial decisions**: The committee can borrow money, sell or lease property, buy land, or make investments — but only up to certain limits (around $1.5 million per transaction, adjusted for inflation). Anything bigger needs approval from a special general meeting of members.\n- **Handles lawsuits**: All court cases involving the club must be brought in the Chairman's name, but any judgment against the Chairman can be enforced against the club's assets.\n- **Requires official registration**: The Chairman's name must be recorded in the Supreme Court of NSW within a month of election.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Members of City Tattersall's Club\n- The Chairman and committee who run the club\n- Anyone doing business with the club (lenders, property buyers, etc.)\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThis is a rare example of \"private legislation\" — a law made for one specific organisation rather than the general public. It gives the club special legal privileges (like the corporation sole structure) that ordinary clubs don't have. The Act also includes a \"sunset clause\" (section 13) — it will automatically expire once the club incorporates under modern corporate law (like the Corporations Act) and after 31 December 2005."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Section 13 / Status Information Note","severity":"medium","reasoning":"A private Act from 1912 with an unexercised expiry-by-proclamation clause creates legal uncertainty over more than a century. The responsible Minister (for Gaming and Racing) has indefinite discretion to never trigger the expiry, effectively rendering the expiry provision a dead letter while still nominally operative. This is not strictly a logical contradiction but represents a structural absurdity — Parliament enacted an expiry mechanism that the executive can simply ignore indefinitely.","confidence":0.82,"description":"The Act contains a self-referential expiry mechanism that has never been triggered. The Act has been 'in force' since 1912 and its current version runs from 8 January 2010 'to date' (accessed 2026), yet it contains a note that it 'will expire on a day to be appointed by proclamation.' No such proclamation has apparently been made in over 110 years, meaning the Act exists in a perpetual state of imminent but never-realised expiry."},{"type":"other","section":"Status Information — Responsible Minister","severity":"low","reasoning":"Assigning active Ministerial responsibility under a 2023 administrative arrangements order to a 1912 private Act that does nothing visible and has no imminent regulatory purpose, while the Act simultaneously carries an unfired expiry provision, creates a bureaucratic loop with no evident utility.","confidence":0.65,"description":"A private Act incorporated in 1912 to serve a specific private club is still administered by the Minister for Gaming and Racing under a 2023 Ministerial arrangements order, more than 110 years after enactment, with no apparent legislative activity since 2010 and no expiry proclamation made. The ongoing administrative overhead for what is effectively a dormant private club Act is arguably absurd."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Status Information Note — 'This Act will expire on a day to be appointed by proclamation — see section 13'","section_b":"Status Information — 'Current version for 8 January 2010 to date (accessed 3 April 2026 at 16:04)' and 'The provisions displayed in this version of the legislation have all commenced'","confidence":0.7,"description":"The Act simultaneously asserts that all its provisions are in force and operative, while also stating it is subject to expiry by proclamation under section 13. If section 13 itself is a provision 'in force,' then the Act is in a legally ambiguous state: fully operative yet subject to termination at the unilateral discretion of the executive at any moment, with no Parliamentary trigger required. The status page presents the Act as stable and current while simultaneously flagging its potential non-existence."}]},"summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available information, the Act appears to have remained focused on its original narrow purpose — governing the legal status and operations of City Tattersall's Club. The 2003 and 2010 amendments did not appear to dramatically broaden its scope beyond the single club it was always intended to cover."},"complexity_factors":["Very limited legislative text is available in the provided excerpt — the actual operative provisions (sections 1–13) are not reproduced, making full analysis impossible","Private Acts are a relatively niche and archaic form of legislation that many people are unfamiliar with","The expiry-by-proclamation mechanism (section 13) introduces some uncertainty — the Act could end at any time without a fixed date","The Ministerial responsibility (Gaming and Racing) suggests interaction with broader gaming and liquor licensing laws, adding a layer of regulatory complexity for the club"],"plain_english_summary":"City Tattersall’s Club Act 1912 is a private NSW law that creates the club’s formal legal identity—allowing it to hold property, contract and be sued in its own name—and sets out how it’s governed. It chiefly affects the club’s members and management, is administratively linked to the Minister for Gaming and Racing, has seen only minor amendments, and remains in force until the government formally proclaims its expiry."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The Act’s scope was altered by later amendments that inserted a statutory expiry: the Act now terminates on proclamation once the club is incorporated under another New South Wales or Commonwealth Act or not earlier than 31 December 2005 (s 13, inserted 2003; note of amendment 2009). This converts what was originally framed as ongoing statutory governance into a time‑limited regime pending incorporation, changing the instrument’s intended duration and interaction with future corporate law."},"complexity_factors":["Vesting of all club real and personal property in the chairman as a corporation sole creates unusual title and representation arrangements (s 8).","Legal actions are to be brought and continued in the chairman’s name and judgments against the chairman are enforceable against club property—creates agency/formalities for litigation (ss 9, 12).","Requirement to record a sworn memorial in the Supreme Court within one month of appointment of each chairman before the club may bring actions: administrative and timing compliance burden (ss 10–11).","Committee powers to borrow, mortgage, issue debentures, sell or lease and to invest and expend funds are broad but subject to monetary thresholds and member approvals—discretion constrained by numeric limits (ss 6–7).","Monetary thresholds are ‘‘annually adjusted’’ by the Sydney Consumer Price Index, requiring ongoing calculation and indexation (definition of annually adjusted; s 2; ss 6–7).","Member meeting quorums and voting steps for adopting, confirming or rejecting rule changes impose procedural requirements and a two-meeting confirmation process (ss 3–5).","Statutory expiry provision changes permanence of the Act and ties cessation to external events (incorporation under another Act or specified date), adding a temporal complexity to the Act’s scope (s 13)."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act governs the City Tattersall’s Club’s internal governance, property ownership and major financial powers. It vests the club’s real and personal property in the chairman (as a corporation sole), authorises the committee (acting in the chairman’s name) to borrow, invest, buy, sell, lease and improve property subject to member approval for large transactions, requires recording a memorial of each chairman in the Supreme Court before actions in the chairman’s name can proceed, and sets out procedures for changing club rules and a statutory expiry trigger."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/city-tattersall-s-club-act-of-1912","history":"/api/acts/city-tattersall-s-club-act-of-1912/history","analysis":"/api/acts/city-tattersall-s-club-act-of-1912/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/city-tattersall-s-club-act-of-1912/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/city-tattersall-s-club-act-of-1912/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/city-tattersall-s-club-act-of-1912/documents"}}