{"id":"land-goonawarra-golf-course-act-1988","name":"Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988","slug":"land-goonawarra-golf-course-act-1988","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"vic","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":173280,"registerId":"vic-land-goonawarra-golf-course-act-1988-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988","content":"Version No. 004\n\n**Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988**\n\n**No. 6 of 1988**\n\nVersion incorporating amendments as at  \n6 March 2024\n\n**table of provisions**\n\n*Section Page*\n\n1 Purpose 2\n\n2 Commencement 3\n\n3 Definitions 3\n\n4 Sale of Goonawarra Golf Course 3\n\n5 Use of Goonawarra Golf Course 4\n\n6 Legal effect of sub-lease 5\n\n7 No compensation or damages payable 6\n\nSchedule 8\n\nSchedule 1—Club premises 20\n\nSchedule 2—Rental 21\n\nSchedule 3—Golf course equipment 23\n\nSchedule 4—Annual maintenance program 25\n\nSchedule 5—Golf course plant 28\n\nSchedule 6—Role of the golf professional 30\n\nSchedule 7—Club playing rights 31\n\nEndnotes 32\n\n1 General information 32\n\n2 Table of Amendments 34\n\n3 Explanatory details 35\n\n**Version No.** **004**\n\n**Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988**\n\n**No. 6 of 1988**\n\nVersion incorporating amendments as at  \n6 March 2024\n\n**Preamble**\n\nWHEREAS—\n\n(a) in accordance with the terms of an agreement made on 27 July 1978 between the Housing Commission of Victoria and the Municipality of the Shire of Bulla—\n\n(i) the Goonawarra Golf Course and its associated facilities were established; and\n\n(ii) the Commission leased the Goonawarra Golf Course and its facilities to the Municipality on the condition that the Municipality maintain it; and\n\n(iii) the lease included an option to purchase the Goonawarra Golf Course and its facilities exercisable by the Municipality for a consideration to be agreed between the Housing Commission of Victoria and the Municipality but not to be more than $800 000, payable in equal annual instalments spread over a period of 25 years, interest free; and\n\n(iv) a private golf club called the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited was established; and\n\n(b) in accordance with the terms of an agreement made on 31 December 1981 between the Housing Commission of Victoria, the Municipality of the Shire of Bulla and the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited—\n\n(i) the Municipality sub-leased part of the Goonawarra Golf Course to the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited; and\n\n(ii) the sub-lease included licences for the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited, its members and invitees to use the rest of the Goonawarra Golf Course at certain times; and\n\n(iii) the sub-lease included an option to renew the sub-lease and the licences, exercisable by the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited for successive periods of 5 years, but not more than a total period of 75 years, on the same rental and other terms as those included in the sub-lease; and\n\n(c) having regard to the fact that the Municipality of the Shire of Bulla has maintained the Goonawarra Golf Course in the past and will maintain it in the future, it is desirable to authorise the sale of the Goonawarra Golf Course to the Municipality; and\n\n(d) to enable reasonable access to and use of the Goonawarra Golf Course by the public, it is proposed to make provision concerning the legal effect of the sub-lease to the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited, so as to balance equitably the interests of the members of the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited and the general public:\n\n**The Parliament of Victoria therefore enacts as follows:**\n\n\t1 Purpose\n\nThe purpose of this Act is—\n\n(a) to authorise the sale of the Goonawarra Golf Course to the Municipality of the Shire of Bulla; and\n\n(b) to provide for the legal effect of certain documents and for other matters consequential on the sale.\n\n\t2 Commencement\n\nThis Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\n\t3 Definitions\n\nIn this Act—\n\n***Goonawarra Golf Course*** means the Golf Course described in clause 1(v) of the Schedule;\n\n***Municipality*** means the President, Councillors and Ratepayers of the Shire of Bulla;\n\n***sub-lease*** means the sub-lease of part of the Goonawarra Golf Course made on 31 December 1981 between the Municipality and the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited and includes the licences and options to renew granted under that sub-lease.\n\n\t4 Sale of Goonawarra Golf Course\n\nS. 4(1) amended by No. 40/2022 s. 56.\n\n(1) Homes Victoria (within the meaning of section 4(1) of the **Housing Act 1983**), as successor of the Housing Commission of Victoria, is by this section authorised to sell the Goonawarra Golf Course to the Municipality on terms determined in accordance with this section.\n\n(2) The Municipality is by this section authorised to purchase the Goonawarra Golf Course on the terms determined in accordance with this section.\n\n(3) The terms of a sale authorised by this section are—\n\n(a) if the sale occurs not later than 3 months after the date of commencement of this Act—\n\n(i) a consideration to be agreed between the Director and the Municipality, but not being more than $800 000, payable in equal annual instalments spread over 25 years, interest free; and\n\n(ii) any other terms agreed between the Director and the Municipality; or\n\n(b) if the sale occurs more than 3 months after the date of commencement of this Act—\n\n(i) a consideration to be determined by the Valuer-General at the request of either the Director or the Municipality having regard to the market value of the land; and\n\n(ii) any other terms agreed between the Director and the Municipality.\n\n\t5 Use of Goonawarra Golf Course\n\n(1) This section applies despite anything to the contrary in any Act or law.\n\n(2) The Municipality, while it is the holder of an interest as purchaser under a contract of sale of the Goonawarra Golf Course in accordance with section 4, and while it is the registered proprietor of the Goonawarra Golf Course, must ensure that—\n\n(a) the Goonawarra Golf Course is used only as a golf course; and\n\n(b) members of the public who wish to play golf on the Goonawarra Golf Course and who do not have a right to play as members of a golf club are given reasonable access to, and use of, the Course.\n\n(3) A person (other than the Municipality) who is for the time being registered as the proprietor of the Goonawarra Golf Course under the **Transfer of Land Act 1958** must ensure that—\n\n(a) the Goonawarra Golf Course is used only as a golf course; and\n\n(b) members of the public who wish to play golf on the Goonawarra Golf Course and who do not have a right to play as members of a golf club are given reasonable access to, and use of, the Course.\n\n1. 10 penalty units.\n\n\n(4) As well as any penalty imposed under subsection (3), a person convicted of an offence against that subsection is liable to a penalty of not more than 10 penalty units for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.\n\n\t6 Legal effect of sub-lease\n\n(1) The sub-lease has effect as if the lease of the Goonawarra Golf Course made on 31 December 1981 between the Housing Commission of Victoria and the Municipality continued in force, and the failure to renew that lease at the end of its term does not affect the existence, previous operation or continuing effect to the sub-lease.\n\n(2) Subject to this section, any sale of the Goonawarra Golf Course in accordance with section 4 is subject to the sub-lease.\n\n(3) On the sale of the Goonawarra Golf Course in accordance with section 4, the sub-lease has effect as a lease between the Municipality as lessor and the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited as lessee, and as if—\n\n(a) the execution and attestation provisions of the sub-lease referred to a lease, instead of a sub-lease; and\n\n(b) instead of the other provisions contained in the sub-lease, the sub-lease contained the provisions of the Schedule.\n\n(4) This section applies despite anything to the contrary in the agreement made on 31 December 1981 between the Housing Commission of Victoria, the Municipality and the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited.\n\n\t7 No compensation or damages payable\n\nS. 7(1) amended by No. 6/2024 s. 107.\n\n(1) No amount is payable by the Crown, Homes Victoria (within the meaning of the **Housing Act 1983**), the Municipality or any other person, as compensation or damages (whether by statute, for breach of contract or under any rule of law)—\n\n(a) in respect of anything done under or arising out of the provisions of the Schedule, except—\n\n(i) where the Schedule otherwise expressly provides; or\n\n(ii) for a contravention of a provision of the Schedule; or\n\n(b) in respect of anything done under or arising out of any other provision of this Act; or\n\nS. 7(1)(c) amended by No. 74/2000 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 67).\n\n(c) because of the variation or diminution, by this Act, of an interest, right or liability;\n\n(d) because of the variation by this Act of the terms and legal effect of the sub-lease.\n\n(2) In subsection (1), a reference to breach of contract includes, but is not limited to—\n\n(a) breach of the agreement made on 27 July 1978 between the Housing Commission of Victoria and the Municipality, concerning the Goonawarra Golf Course; and\n\n(b) breach of the agreement made on 31 December 1981 between the Housing Commission of Victoria, the Municipality and the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited.\n\nSchedule\n\nSection 6(3)\n\nProvisions referred to in section 6(3)\n\nTHE PRESIDENT, COUNCILLORS AND RATEPAYERS OF THE SHIRE OF BULLA of Macedon Street, Sunbury (hereinafter called \"the Shire\") HEREBY LEASES to GOONAWARRA GOLF CLUB LIMITED of Clubhouse, Francis Boulevard, Sunbury (hereinafter called \"the Club\") all that land being the Goonawarra Golf Clubhouse and its immediate surrounds more particularly described in Schedule 1 hereto together with all improvements plant machinery and equipment now or hereafter installed thereon (hereinafter called \"the club premises\") TO BE HELD by the Club for the term of five (5) years commencing on the date of commencement of the **Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988** (hereinafter called \"the commencement date\") at the annual rental hereinafter reserved subject to the covenants and powers implied by statute unless hereby negatived or modified and to the covenants and conditions hereinafter contained.\n\n1. Definitions\n\nIn this lease unless the contrary intention appears—\n\n(i) the expression **\"the Minister\"** means the Minister administering the **Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988**;\n\n(ii) the expression **\"the Shire\"** means the Shire or other person entitled to the reversion immediately expectant on determination of the term hereby created and (where not repugnant to the context) the servants or agents of the Shire and other persons authorised by the Shire;\n\n(iii) the expression **\"the Club\"** means the Club and the permitted transferees and assigns of the Club and (where not repugnant to the context) the servants agents and invitees of the Club;\n\n(iv) **\"the term of the lease\"** or **\"the said term\"** means the actual term created by this lease and also (where not repugnant to the context) any renewal thereof and any period during which the Club shall hold over or be or remain a tenant or in occupation of the club premises;\n\n(v) the expression **\"the Golf Course\"** means the golf course known as the Goonawarra Golf Course and being the whole of the land described in Certificate of Title Volume 9428 Folio 283 and Volume 9428 Folio 285 together with all existing buildings or improvements now or hereafter to be erected thereon other than the club premises;\n\n(vi) references to statutes shall include any amendments re-enactments or consolidations thereof;\n\n(vii) words importing the singular number shall include the plural and the masculine gender shall include the feminine or neuter and vice versa;\n\n(viii) any reference to a person shall be deemed to include a corporate body and vice versa;\n\n(ix) headings of clauses and marginal notes have been inserted for guidance only and shall not be deemed to form any part of this lease or to affect the construction thereof.\n\n2. Rental\n\nThe Club shall pay to the Shire an annual rental calculated at the rate and in the manner set out in Schedule 2 hereto and payable quarterly on the days appointed in the said Schedule.\n\n3. Use by Club\n\n(1) The Club further covenants with the Shire that the Club shall not at any time during the said term use the Golf Course and/or the club premises or permit or suffer to be used the Golf Course and/or the club premises for any purpose other than that of a golf course and/or private golf club operating therefrom including all related or ancillary activities or services.\n\n(2) The Club shall at all times store and keep all trade waste and garbage emanating from the club premises in proper receptacles kept within an area designated as a garbage storage area and to make suitable arrangements for the disposal thereof and at all times refrain from ejecting or abandoning from the club premises or depositing or leaving elsewhere in or about the club premises any such trade waste and garbage.\n\n(3) The Shire shall ensure that usual public facilities including changing rooms and golf professional's shop are available to persons desiring to play golf on the Golf Course.\n\n4. Maintenance—Golf Course\n\n(1) The Shire shall at the cost and expense in all things of the Shire well and substantially repair and maintain as a golf course in good and substantial condition the Golf Course and all improvements and installed equipment thereon or therein (including the installed sprinkler system and all existing fencing and all other equipment specified in Schedule 3 hereof) and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the Shire shall strictly adhere to the Annual Maintenance Programme set out in Schedule 4 and the Club shall not be liable for any maintenance costs during the period of this lease.\n\n(2) The Shire shall ensure that the fairways, greens and other physical features of the Golf Course remain substantially unaltered and in particular remain planted as at present subject to such alterations as may be agreed between the parties.\n\n5. Maintenance—plant and equipment\n\n(1) The Shire shall provide all mechanical equipment and other plant and machinery necessary or desirable to enable the Golf Course to be maintained as a golf course of high standard suitable for competitive play under Victorian Golf Association conditions (including in particular the plant and equipment set out in Schedule 5 hereto).\n\n(2) The Shire shall fully maintain and wherever necessary replace or reinstate to good working order all of the plant equipment and machinery supplied or made available pursuant to subclause (1) above.\n\n(3) The Shire may from time to time vary the items of equipment set out in Schedules 3 and 5 in accordance with the Shire's reasonable opinion as to the items of equipment required to maintain the Golf Course in accordance with the provisions herein contained.\n\n6. Maintenance—buildings\n\n(1) The Club shall at the cost and expense in all things of the Club well and substantially repair and maintain any buildings on the club premises.\n\n(2) The Shire shall at the cost and expense in all things of the Shire well and substantially repair and maintain all other buildings and other structural improvements erected on the Golf Course.\n\n(3) The Shire and its agents may at all reasonable times and after giving reasonable notice to the Club (except in case of emergency when no notice shall be required) enter upon the club premises and view the state of repair of the club premises and structural improvements erected thereon and may serve upon the Club a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair for which the Club may be responsible hereunder and require the Club within a reasonable time (having regard to the nature of the required works) to repair the same and in default of the Club so doing it shall be lawful for the Shire from time to time to enter and execute the required repairs and for that purpose the Shire its architects contractors workmen and agents may enter upon the whole or any part of the club premises and there remain for the purpose of doing erecting or effecting any such thing and any expenses and costs of carrying out such work shall be forthwith payable by the Club to the Shire.\n\n(4) The Club may with the prior consent in writing of the Shire which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld at the cost in all things of the Club make any structural alterations or additions in or to the Golf Clubhouse erected on the club premises or any part thereof and the Club may make non-structural alterations or additions in or to the club premises or any part thereof provided that before making such non-structural alterations or additions the Club has first given written notice to the Shire of its intention to do so and the Club shall in the course of any alterations or additions whether structural or otherwise observe and comply with all requirements of the appropriate public authorities.\n\n7. Staff\n\nThe Shire shall at no cost to the Club appoint an experienced curator of the Golf Course and shall appoint suitable assistants necessary to perform the maintenance program in accordance with the terms of Clause 4(1) hereof.\n\n8. Golf professional\n\n(1) The Shire shall appoint an experienced golf professional to operate from the Golf Course whose responsibilities and functions are more particularly set out in Schedule 6 hereto.\n\n(2) The golf professional shall be required to employ all necessary staff to assist in the conduct of his business and the management of the Golf Course during each day of the week save and except for those maintenance duties which shall be the normal responsibility of the curator.\n\n9. No assignment or sub-letting\n\nThe Club shall not during the said term transfer assign sub-let or part with the possession of the club premises otherwise than with the approval of the Shire and then only subject to such conditions or stipulations as the Shire may reasonably impose in the interests of establishing or maintaining a private golf club as hereinafter provided.\n\n10. Outgoings\n\nThe Shire and the Club mutually covenant with each other as follows:\n\n(1) The Club shall throughout the said term pay or reimburse to the Shire all rates, taxes (including land tax), assessments, or fees levied or assessed or imposed or charged on or in respect of the club premises or the Club's use or occupancy thereof and all charges and outgoings in respect of the club premises including electricity gas oil and water consumed in the club premises and charges in respect of telephone services connected to the club premises and all other charges, if any, imposed by any public utility or authority for the supply of any service separately supplied to the club premises and it is agreed that all such amounts shall if necessary be apportioned to the club premises on the basis of the proportion of the total area assessed.\n\n(2) The Club shall not at any time during the said term permit or suffer to be done any act matter or thing whereby any insurances in respect of the Golf Course or the club premises may be vitiated or rendered void or voidable or (except with the approval in writing of the Shire) whereby the rate of premium on any such insurance shall be increased.\n\n(3) The Shire shall effect and at all times during the said term maintain in respect of the Golf Course and the club premises:\n\n(a) A public risk policy for an amount of not less than one million dollars ($1 000 000) or such other amount as may be reasonably required by the Minister in the joint names of the Shire and the Club;\n\n(b) Insurance for the full insurable value against loss or damage to the Shire's buildings, stock, fixtures and fittings in or upon the Golf Course and the club premises;\n\n(c) Insurance for the full replaceable value against damage to all plate glass windows now or hereafter installed in the Golf Course and the club premises—\n\nPROVIDED ALWAYS that the Club shall reimburse to the Shire the amount of all insurance premiums paid by the Shire in respect of insurance policies relating solely to the club premises and a fair proportion of the public risk insurance premiums in respect of insurance policies relating to the Golf Course as a whole.\n\n(4) All policies of insurance liable or required to be effected by the Shire hereunder whether in respect of the property or risk of the Shire or the Club shall be taken out with an insurance office or company selected by the Shire and the Club and approved by the Minister, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.\n\n(5) The Shire shall in respect of each policy of insurance to be effected hereunder produce to the Club if so required each current policy of insurance or a counterpart thereof and the receipt for the last premium payable in respect thereof.\n\n11. Default termination\n\nIf either—\n\n(a) the rental or any part thereof or other sums due and payable hereunder shall be unpaid for a period of thirty (30) days after any of the days upon which the same ought to have been paid in accordance with the covenants and conditions herein contained; or\n\n(b) the Club does not remedy any breach or non-observance by it of any of the other agreements terms or conditions on its part herein contained or implied within thirty (30) days of being required to do so by written notice given by the Shire—\n\nthen the Shire may after giving thirty (30) days' notice to the Club of its intention so to do re-enter upon the club premises or any part thereof in the name of the whole and repossess the same and thereupon this Lease and the licence hereby granted shall be determined without prejudice to the Shire's right of action in respect of any breach or non-performance of the Club's covenants herein contained PROVIDED ALWAYS that if the Club shall provide satisfactory proof in writing to the Shire that it is exercising the utmost diligence to remedy any breach or non-observance or non-performance by it of any of the said covenants agreements terms and conditions as aforesaid but is unable to comply with the said written notice hereinbefore referred to within the period of thirty (30) days aforesaid then the Shire agrees save and except in the event of failure by the Club to pay the rental as and when due to allow such additional period not exceeding sixty (60) days as shall be reasonably necessary for the Club to comply with the said notice.\n\n12. Compliance with statutes\n\nThe Club shall at all times during the said term comply with all statutes statutory rules by-laws orders or regulations and other provisions having the force of law present or future affecting or relating the Club's use of the club premises or the Club's occupancy thereof PROVIDED ALWAYS that the Club shall be under no liability in respect of any structural alterations the requirement for which was not caused directly by the Club's use or occupation of the club premises.\n\n13. Quiet enjoyment\n\nThe Shire covenants with the Club that subject to the Club paying the rent hereby reserved and duly and punctually observing and performing the covenants obligations and conditions contained in this lease and on the part of the Club to be observed and performed the Club shall and may peaceably possess and enjoy the club premises for the term of the lease without any interruption or disturbances from the Shire or any other person or persons lawfully claiming from or under the Shire.\n\n14. Yielding up\n\nThe Club shall at the expiration of the said term yield up the club premises including all improvements fixtures and fittings thereon or therein in a fit and satisfactory condition.\n\n15. Golf Club\n\n(1) The Shire covenants to promote and foster (by provision of financial and other support and assistance in accordance with the Shire's general policies and practices for sporting associations and affiliations) the development of the Club.\n\n(2) The Shire shall use its best endeavours to assist the Club to obtain and maintain membership of the Victorian Golf Association (or its successor) and to comply with and observe all rules and requirements of such Association.\n\n16. Golf Course\n\n(1) In consideration of the Club entering into this Lease the Shire hereby grants to the Club and all of its members and invitees an exclusive licence to use the Golf Course throughout the term of the lease as a golf course during the hours—\n\n(a) determined from time to time by agreement between the parties to this Lease; or\n\n(b) if—\n\n(i) either party to this Lease at any time requests the Minister to make a determination under this subclause; and\n\n(ii) the Minister is satisfied that the parties are unable to agree for the purposes of paragraph (a)—\n\ndetermined from time to time by the Minister in accordance with Schedule 7 to this Lease.\n\nThis licence may not be revoked by the Shire unless the Shire shall have properly terminated the said term pursuant to clause 11 herein.\n\n(2) Notwithstanding the foregoing the Shire and the Club covenant to ensure that other than in the case of exceptional circumstances the golf course, public facilities building and other facilities comprising the Golf Course are available for use by any member of the public upon payment of fair and reasonable green fees and compliance with reasonable directions relating to the use of the Golf Course throughout the year except during the hours specified for club use in accordance with Schedule 7 of this Agreement.\n\n17. Guarantee\n\nIn the event that the Shire shall by agreement with the Club provide or make available funds for capital works including the erection or extension of buildings on the club premises then the Shire may require the several guarantees of Directors or Trustees of the Club as to the repayment of funds so advanced.\n\n18. Option to renew\n\nThe Shire covenants with the Club that subject only to the Shire being entitled to do so the Shire will grant to the Club the option to extend this lease and the exclusive licence to use the Golf Course hereinbefore granted for a further period of five (5) years upon the same terms and conditions as are herein contained except the commencement date (unless otherwise agreed between the parties) including this option for renewal:\n\nPROVIDED THAT the Club shall exercise its option to renew by notice in writing to the Shire delivered not less than sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of the term of the lease but the Shire shall if no such notice is received notify the Club in writing that the said term is due to expire and the Shire shall thereafter allow the Club a reasonable period of grace within which to elect to exercise its option to renew the said term on the terms and conditions as aforesaid and advise the Shire accordingly.\n\nPROVIDED FURTHER that the Club's right to renew leases of the club premises and exclusive licence to the Golf Course shall be limited to and not exceed 70 years.\n\nSchedule 1—Club premises\n\nProvisions preceding clause 1\n\nPart of Lot 36 on Plan Subdivision No. 130730 being part of the land described in Certificate of Title Volume 9428 Folio 283.\n\nThis land together with details of the buildings and improvements thereon is more particularly defined on the attached plan entitled \"Lease Diagram\".\n\n![]()\n\nSchedule 2—Rental\n\nClause 2\n\nThe annual rental shall be calculated by application of the following formula:\n\n30 × NM × GF\n\nWhere \"NM\" is the number of members of the club as at 1st January preceding the annual rental period for which the rent is calculated and \"GF\" is the weekend green fee (18 holes) approved by the Minister and charged by the Shire as at the same date.\n\nFor the purposes of this lease, the annual rental period is the period of 12 months commencing on the date of commencement of the lease, and each successive period of 12 months during the term of the lease.\n\nThe rental shall be payable by four equal consecutive quarterly instalments. For the purposes of this lease, a quarter is a period of 3 months ending on 31st March, 30th June, 30th September or 31st December. The rent is payable at the end of the quarter in which the lease commences and at the end of each successive quarter during the term. If the term begins or ends otherwise than at the beginning of a quarter a proportion of the total rent for that quarter is payable. The proportion is to be calculated by reference to the fraction of the total quarter for which the term runs.\n\nFor the purposes of establishing the number of members of the Club as at 1st January each year the Club shall, prior to the end of the first month of the term of the lease and prior to 1st January in each successive year of the term, present for the inspection of the Shire all books, lists, records and other documents reasonably required by the Shire to enable it to determine club membership numbers. If the Shire and the Club fail to reach agreement on the number of club members by the end of the second month of the term of the lease and by 31st March in each successive year for the purposes of calculating the annual rental the number of members shall be that specified by the Minister (in a notice to the parties hereto) after the Minister has made such enquiries as are in his/her absolute discretion reasonable.\n\nSchedule 3—Golf course equipment\n\nClause 4(1)\n\nIRRIGATION SYSTEM\n\n*Controllers*\n\n1 • Johns-Manville KCS central processor complete with two rechargeable cadmium batteries\n\n1 • 240V—24V electrical transformer\n\n3 • Johns-Manville DCS 24 keyboard irrigation controllers complete with locking steel cabinets\n\n*Mains Connections*\n\n3 • 100mm main gate valves\n\n3 • 100mm s.s. strainers\n\n3 • 100mm pressure reducing valves\n\n3 • 80mm gate valves\n\n3 • 65mm gate valves\n\n*Course Fittings*\n\n146 • 24V electric control valves\n\n116 • Fibreglass valve boxes\n\n3 • 23mm Buckner part circle pop-up sprinklers\n\n513 • 25mm Buckner 1330 pop-up sprinklers\n\n18 • 25mm Buckner 1360 pop-up sprinklers\n\n98 • 20mm Parkway pop-up sprinklers (on tees)\n\n4 • 20mm Rainbird pop-up sprinklers (1st tee)\n\n39 • Buckner 25mm turf valves\n\n6 • Drinking fountains\n\n4 • 25mm turf valve keys\n\n46 • 20mm garden taps—tree plantations, clubhouse precinct for manual watering\n\n1 • 40mm gate valve (manual, for top lake on 16th)\n\n2 • 25mm gate valves (manual, for waterfall on 16th, and for watering entrance landscaping)\n\n• Loose equipment\n\n15 • 25mm Rainbird sprinklers on skid stands\n\n500 • metres of 20mm Parkmaster garden hose with fittings\n\n2 • 20mm Model 70 Rainbird sprinklers on skid stands\n\n• Sundry trickle irrigation tubing and fittings\n\n• Lockwood padlocks, keyed alike\n\nMISCELLANEOUS INSTALLED EQUIPMENT\n\n4 • Thorn 150W low flood lights (Promotion Centre)\n\n2 • Phillips 100W bollard garden lights (Promotion Centre)\n\n1 • half H.P.S. 150 Submersion pump, pipe and nozzle (10th)\n\n1 • Mono CP 25 domestic mutrator (sewerage to equipment shed)\n\n2 • Eye 250 flood lights (entrance pond near 11th fairway)\n\n1 • Davey ·9 HP Electric 40mm pump (entrance pond near 11th fairway)\n\nThe parties may agree from time to time to substitute for any particular item of equipment any suitable alternative equipment.\n\nSchedule 4—Annual maintenance program\n\nClause 4(1)\n\n*GREENS*:\n\n*Cut*: Monday, Wednesday, Friday with 'GreensKing mower' unless impracticable.\n\n*Scarify*: In Autumn or Spring, when greens mature. Fertilize immediately after scarifying.\n\n*Tyne*: In Spring or Autumn, alternatively to scarifying. Apply sand of appropriate size and quantity to improve firmness and turf quality.\n\n*Topdress*: Minimum four times per year, monthly light dressings preferable.\n\n*Fungicide*: 4-weekly intervals, or more if required.\n\n*Insecticide*: Preventative programme of 5 applications during the year plus extra if required.\n\n*Weed* *Control*: Maintain free of broadleaf weeds and unwanted grasses including Poa annua by cultural and selective chemical treatments.\n\n*Fertilize*: Every 4 weeks throughout the year, using appropriate fertilizer mixtures.\n\n*Water*: In Summer on alternate nights with a daily syringe if required; length of watering time to be adjusted for prevailing weather conditions.\n\n*Soil pH*: To be maintained at 6 by application of agricultural lime as required.\n\n*FAIRWAYS*:\n\n*Cut*: Cut and backcut weekly with gang mower including practice fairway.\n\n*Water*: Water as necessary, deeply and infrequently, but not less than three times weekly in dry warm weather.\n\n*Gypsum*: Aerate by Trackaire or similar, and apply gypsum yearly.\n\n*Broadleaf Weeds*: Poison twice a year in suitable weather conditions or more often if required.\n\n*Soil pH*: Adjust to a reading of 6 with a yearly application of agricultural lime if required.\n\n*Fertilize*: Minimum of two applications of nitrogen fertilizer yearly at a minimum rate of 200 kg per Ha.\n\n*TEES*:\n\n*Markers*: Move at least twice weekly to rest worn areas.\n\n*Divots*: Repair weekly, or more often if necessary.\n\n*Scarify*: Scarify, seed and top dress twice yearly.\n\n*Level*: Top dress for levelling 3 times each year.\n\n*Soil pH*: As for greens.\n\n*Weed Control*: As for greens.\n\n*Fertilize*: At least 3 times per year.\n\n*Seed*: At least annually, with sufficient seed to maintain thick growth.\n\n*BUNKERS*:\n\n*Rake*: Twice weekly, more often for special events.\n\n*Weed*: Control with poison and/or flame thrower monthly.\n\n*Edge*: Monthly.\n\n*Sand*: Replace losses yearly.\n\n*ROUGH*:\n\n*Cut*: With roughcutter at least fortnightly in growing season, at least monthly in other seasons.\n\n*DRAINAGE*:\n\n*Clear*: Clear blockages immediately. Flush drainage lines annually or as required. Drain wet spots as necessary.\n\n*GARDEN AREAS*:\n\n*Weed*: Quarterly or as required.\n\n*Water*: As required.\n\n*Fertilize*: Quarterly.\n\n*LAKES*:\n\n*Fill*: Top up in dry periods to maintain at high level but with a safety margin to accommodate reasonable rainfall drainage.\n\n*Weed growth*: Spray Cumbungi annually.\n\n*TREES*:\n\n*1st year*: Water as required. Hoe to remove weed growth as required.\n\n*Deciduous*: Water as required until established.\n\n*Dead Trees*: Remove and replace annually as required.\n\n*IRRIGATION SYSTEM*:\n\n*Wear and Tear*: Replace sprinklers and/or parts thereof as required. Replace valve parts as required.\n\n*Blockages*: Clear as required.\n\n*Adjustments*: Change nozzle sizes and rates of rotation as required.\n\n*Filters*: Remove and clean yearly before watering season, and more often if necessary.\n\n*DAMAGE*:\n\nBy storm, vandalism, stock, accident etc.—repair immediately.\n\nSchedule 5—Golf course plant\n\nClause 5(1)\n\n*Plant and Machinery to be Available as Required for the Maintenance of the Course*\n\n*Mowers*\n\nHydraulic-driven gang mower\n\nGreens mower\n\nSurrounds mower\n\nMultimower, tractor drawn\n\nRoughcutter\n\n2 hand cylinder mowers\n\n2 hand rotary mowers\n\n2 Deutcher 26\" self-propelled walk-behind mowers\n\n*Vehicles*\n\n  3 Tractors\n\nMotorcycle\n\nUtility\n\n*Tractor-Drawn P.T.O.*\n\nBulk spreader\n\nFairway spreader—e.g. Vicon or similar\n\nSpraying equipment for fairways and greens trailer with hydraulic tipper\n\nAerator e.g. Trackaire or similar\n\nGrader blade\n\nFront-end loader\n\n\"Carry-all\" type platform\n\nGear pump\n\n2 × 3 foot level-lawn smudgers\n\n*Self-contained*\n\nSodcutter\n\nHollow tyner\n\nScarifer\n\nHand-drawn greens spreader\n\nWeed eater\n\nChainsaw\n\nKnapsack spray\n\nTop dressing machine and dragmat\n\n*Stationary Equipment*\n\nElectric drill and stand\n\nAir compressor\n\nBench grider\n\nWelder\n\nOxy-acetylene cutting equipment\n\nTool kit\n\nSundry hand tools\n\nWork bench\n\nRefrigerator\n\nElectric kettle\n\nElectric fan heater\n\nSet of kitchen scales\n\n2 fire extinguishers\n\nSeed bins\n\nBench vice\n\nThe parties may agree from time to time to substitute for any particular item of equipment any suitable alternative equipment.\n\nSchedule 6—Role of the golf professional\n\nClause 8(1)\n\n1. Collect green fees from players and account for the proceeds to the Shire.\n\n2. Control and record bookings by groups and individual public players.\n\n3. Administer the orderly starting, dress and general behaviour of public players and administer the public facilities building including cleaning of the professional shop and snack bar.\n\n4. Provide drinks and snacks to meet the reasonable demand of public players.\n\n5. Retail golf equipment, including clothing and provide a repair service.\n\n6. Teach golf.\n\n7. Act as the starter and assist the conduct of club competitions.\n\n8. Promote the development of golf in the district, including junior golf.\n\n9. Provide a golf club storage and cleaning service to Club members at an annual fee to be approved by the club.\n\n10. Employ suitable assistants as required for the provision of these services.\n\n11. Maintain close liaison with the Club Manager and the Shire with the aim of ensuring that the rights of public and private Club players are protected as required by the terms of this Agreement.\n\nSchedule 7—Club playing rights\n\nClause 16(1)\n\nThe Club shall have exclusive rights of play during such regular and recurrent hours as are determined and clearly defined by the Minister and from time to time notified to the Shire and the Club.\n\nIn determining the Club's hours of exclusive use of the Golf Course the Minister shall have regard to the number of members of the Club and as far as practicable he/she shall determine hours which satisfy the demand for access to the Golf Course of those members PROVIDED HOWEVER the Minister shall always ensure that the hours available to golfers who are not members of the Club are reasonable given the demand for access to the Golf Course by those golfers.\n\nEndnotes\n\n1 General information\n\nSee [www.legislation.vic.gov.au](http://www.legislation.vic.gov.au) for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.\n\n*Minister's second reading speech—*\n\n*Legislative Assembly: 10 March 1988*\n\n*Legislative Council: 13 April 1988*\n\nThe long title for the Bill for this Act was \"A Bill to authorise the sale of the Goonawarra Golf Course, to provide for the legal effect of certain documents and for other purposes.\".\n\nThe **Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988** was assented to on 19 April 1988 and came into operation on 19 April 1988.\n\nINTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)\n\nStyle changes\n\nSection 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.\n\nReferences to ILA s. 39B\n\nSidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided section or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subsections or subclauses, the original section or clause becomes subsection or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression \"(1)\" at the beginning of the original section or clause.\n\nInterpretation\n\nAs from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:\n\n• Headings\n\nAll headings included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any heading inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; sections; clauses; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. See section 36(1A)(2A).\n\n• Examples, diagrams or notes\n\nAll examples, diagrams or notes included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Act. See section 36(3A).\n\n• Punctuation\n\nAll punctuation included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 forms part of that Act. Any punctuation inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. See section 36(3B).\n\n• Provision numbers\n\nAll provision numbers included in an Act form part of that Act, whether inserted in the Act before, on or after 1 January 2001. Provision numbers include section numbers, subsection numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).\n\n• Location of \"legislative items\"\n\nA \"legislative item\" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of an Act is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.\n\n• Other material\n\nAny explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of an Act.  \nSee section 36(3)(3D)(3E).\n\n2 Table of Amendments\n\nThis publication incorporates amendments made to the **Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988** by Acts and subordinate instruments.\n\n–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––\n\n**Statute Law Revision Act 2000, No. 74/2000**\n\n| Assent Date: | 21.11.00 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 3(Sch. 1 item 67) on 22.11.00: s. 2(1) |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988** |\n\n\n**Residential Tenancies, Housing and Social Services Regulation Amendment (Administration and Other Matters) Act 2022, No. 40/2022**\n\n| Assent Date: | 6.9.22 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 56 on 7.9.22: s. 2(2) |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988** |\n\n\n**Regulatory Legislation Amendment (Reform) Act 2024, No. 6/2024**\n\n| Assent Date: | 5.3.24 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commencement Date: | S. 107 on 6.3.24: s. 2(1) |\n| Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the **Land (Goonawarra Golf Course) Act 1988** |\n\n\n–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––\n\n3 Explanatory details\n\nNo entries at date of publication.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on available information, the Act appears to remain focused on its original narrow purpose of addressing the legal status or use of the Goonawarra Golf Course land. No evidence of scope expansion or amendment was visible in the provided text."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely narrow and specific subject matter — a single parcel of land","Single-purpose legislation typical of Victorian land reservation Acts, which tend to be short and straightforward","No regulatory scheme, penalties, or administrative machinery apparent from available text","Insufficient legislative text provided to identify any hidden complexity"],"plain_english_summary":"The Act governs the legal status and permitted use/management of the Goonawarra Golf Course land, likely fixing its tenure or reserving it for recreational/golfing purposes and authorising management arrangements. It affects course users, the club or council that manages the land, and nearby local authorities or residents. It matters because it legally locks in how the land may be used or repurposed, giving certainty and making future sale or redevelopment harder."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose: facilitating the sale of the Goonawarra Golf Course to the local council while preserving the golf club's lease and ensuring public access. The only amendments since 1988 have been technical updates to reflect organisational name changes (Housing Commission of Victoria → Homes Victoria) and minor statutory revisions. The scope has not expanded beyond the original intent of governing this specific parcel of land and the relationship between the council, the golf club, and the public."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose legislation with narrow geographic and subject-matter scope (one golf course in Sunbury, Victoria)","7 defined terms in section 3, plus additional defined terms within the Schedule (lease clauses)","Extensive cross-referencing between the Act and the Schedule (which contains the detailed lease terms)","Nested conditional logic in section 4 regarding sale timing and pricing (different rules for sale within 3 months vs after)","Detailed technical schedules specifying irrigation equipment brands (Johns-Manville, Buckner, Rainbird), maintenance programs (fertilising intervals, mowing frequencies), and machinery lists","Formula-based rent calculation requiring annual verification of membership numbers","Ministerial override powers in clause 16 regarding exclusive use hours","Complex succession of interests: original 1978 agreement → 1981 sub-lease → 1988 Act conversion to lease → future renewals up to 70 years","Protection clauses in section 7 limiting compensation claims for various parties"],"plain_english_summary":"This Victorian law from 1988 deals with a specific golf course in Sunbury (Goonawarra Golf Course) and balances the interests of a private golf club with public access to play golf.\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Authorises the sale** of the Goonawarra Golf Course from the state housing authority (now called Homes Victoria) to the local council (Shire of Bulla, now part of Hume City Council). The original 1988 price was capped at $800,000 interest-free over 25 years, but if sold later, it would be at market value.\n- **Protects the golf club's lease**: It converts an existing sub-lease between the council and the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited into a direct lease, ensuring the club can continue operating from the clubhouse for up to 70 years (through 14 successive 5-year renewals).\n- **Mandates public access**: The law requires that the golf course must always remain a golf course and that members of the public who aren't club members must be given **reasonable access** to play. The club gets exclusive use during certain hours, but the Minister can step in to set those hours if the council and club can't agree.\n- **Sets detailed maintenance obligations**: The council must maintain the course to a high standard (including specific equipment like irrigation systems and mowers) and employ a curator and golf professional. The club must maintain the clubhouse buildings.\n- **Calculates rent uniquely**: The club's rent is calculated based on a formula involving the number of club members multiplied by the weekend green fee.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- **Goonawarra Golf Club Limited** and its members (who get long-term security of tenure)\n- **The local council** (which owns the land and must maintain the course)\n- **The general public** (who have a legal right to play golf on the course, not just club members)\n- **Homes Victoria** (the state housing authority that originally owned the land)\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThis is a rare example of legislation governing a single specific piece of recreational land. It solves a practical problem: how to transfer public land to council ownership while protecting a private club's existing rights, ensuring the land stays as a golf course forever, and guaranteeing public access. It effectively creates a public-private partnership for community sports facilities, with the law acting as the contract that binds future owners and occupiers."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":6,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains focused on its original mechanical purposes: authorising the sale of the Goonawarra Golf Course to the Shire and fixing the legal effect of the existing sub‑lease by converting it into a lease with detailed terms. Later amendments reflected in the current version appear to be clarifications and updates (for example, identifying Homes Victoria as the successor body and modernising liability language) rather than an expansion of policy scope. The core scope—sale authorisation, preservation of public access and conversion of the sub‑lease into a lease with specific operational provisions—remains the same."},"complexity_factors":["Seven detailed Schedules containing operational, technical and financial rules (Schedules 1–7).","Multiple cross-references to other Acts (Housing Act 1983; Transfer of Land Act 1958).","Conditional pricing rules for sale (different rules if sale within 3 months vs later) (s 4(3)).","Conversion mechanism turning a historic sub-lease into a lease with substituted Schedule terms (s 6(1)–(3)).","Broad non-compensation clause limiting remedies and exceptions, and cross-referencing to Schedule exceptions (s 7).","Discretionary decision points vested in several actors: Director/Homes Victoria, Valuer‑General, the Minister with ‘absolute’ or wide discretion in disputes (Schedule 2 & Sch 7).","Detailed, prescriptive maintenance programme and lists of plant/equipment creating operational complexity (Schedules 3–5).","Rent calculation formula tied to membership and a Minister‑approved green fee, plus procedures for resolving member-count disputes (Schedule 2).","Multiple ongoing obligations split between Municipality (maintenance, staff, insurance) and Club (clubhouse upkeep, rates, some reimbursements) requiring coordination (Schedule clauses 4–11)."],"plain_english_summary":"**What this law does (mechanically)**\n\n- Authorises Homes Victoria (the successor to the old Housing Commission) to sell the Goonawarra Golf Course to the Municipality of the Shire of Bulla, and authorises the Municipality to buy it (s 4).\n  - If the sale happens within 3 months of the Act commencing, the purchase price is agreed between the Director and the Municipality but capped at $800,000, payable interest-free over 25 years in equal annual instalments (s 4(3)(a)).\n  - If the sale happens later, the Valuer‑General determines a market value at the request of either party (s 4(3)(b)).\n\n- Requires the owner of the land (while purchaser under contract and when registered proprietor) to ensure the land is used only as a golf course and to give members of the public who are not club members reasonable access to play golf (s 5). There is a penalty for breach and a continuing daily penalty after conviction (s 5(3)–(4)).\n\n- Preserves and restates the legal effect of an existing sub-lease to the Goonawarra Golf Club Limited taken out in 1981:\n  - The sub-lease operates as if the earlier lease from 1981 had continued, and failure to renew that earlier lease does not invalidate the sub-lease (s 6(1)).\n  - Any sale under s 4 is subject to (i.e. takes the land subject to) that sub-lease (s 6(2)).\n  - On sale, the sub-lease converts to a lease between the Municipality (lessor) and the Club (lessee) and its operative terms are replaced by the detailed provisions set out in the Schedule to the Act (s 6(3)).\n\n- Limits compensation claims arising from the operation of the Schedule and most other provisions of the Act: broadly, the Crown, Homes Victoria, the Municipality and others are not liable to pay compensation or damages for things done under the Schedule or other provisions of the Act, except where the Schedule expressly allows compensation or for contraventions of Schedule provisions (s 7).\n\n- The Schedule contains a full operational lease for the Club premises and extensive operational detail: description of the club premises (Sch 1), a rent formula (Sch 2), lists of irrigation equipment and machinery (Sch 3 & 5), a detailed annual maintenance programme (Sch 4), the golf professional’s duties (Sch 6), and rules on exclusive club playing hours and public access (Sch 7). When the sub‑lease converts to a lease on sale, those Schedule terms apply as if they had been the lease’s provisions (s 6(3)(b)).\n\n**Who is affected**\n\n- Homes Victoria (seller) — authorised to sell and relieved of certain liabilities arising from carrying out the Act (ss 4, 7).\n- The Municipality of the Shire of Bulla (buyer/lessor) — authorised to buy, becomes responsible for course maintenance, plant, staff (curator) and certain insurances under the Schedule, and must ensure public access and use rules are met (s 4; Schedule clauses 4–9, 10, 16).\n- Goonawarra Golf Club Limited (lessee) — gains an exclusive licence for certain recurrent hours (Sch 7), a formal lease with detailed rights and obligations once the sale occurs (s 6; Schedule), pays rent under a formula based on membership and the weekend green fee (Sch 2), and has renewal rights up to an aggregate limit (Schedule clause 18).\n- Members of the public who play golf — entitled to “reasonable” access and use outside the Club’s exclusive hours and to public facilities; green fees for public players are to be “fair and reasonable” (s 5(2), Schedule cl 16(2)).\n- Parties to the 1978 and 1981 agreements — the Act changes the legal effect of those earlier agreements and limits compensation for their variation (s 7).\n\n**Why it matters (stated purpose and practical implications)**\n\n- The Act’s stated purpose is to authorise the sale to the Municipality and to fix the legal effect of the existing sub‑lease so that public access and the Club’s rights are balanced (s 1; Preamble). Mechanically, it does three main things: (1) creates the power to sell/buy on defined terms; (2) converts the existing sub‑lease into a full lease with detailed operative provisions set out in the Schedule; and (3) restricts compensation claims connected with those changes (ss 4–7).\n\n- Costs and incentives created by the text:\n  - Financial burden on the Municipality: the Schedule makes the Shire responsible for maintaining the golf course, supplying/maintaining major plant and equipment, appointing curator staff and a golf professional, and meeting many insurance obligations (Schedule cl 4–9, 10). Those are recurring operational costs borne by the Municipality unless otherwise agreed or reimbursed by the Club under specific clauses.\n  - Financial benefit concentrated on the Club: the Club enjoys an exclusive licence for specified hours (Schedule 7) and a long option to renew (up to 70 years in total under Schedule cl 18), and its rent is tied to membership numbers and the weekend green fee (Sch 2). That creates an incentive for the Club to preserve membership levels and to influence green‑fee settings (which are Minister‑approved for rent calculation).\n  - Public access: the Act imposes an enforceable duty on the owner/registered proprietor to keep the land as a golf course and to permit reasonable public access (s 5), and the Schedule requires the Shire to make public facilities available and to collect and account for green fees via the golf professional (Schedule cl 3, 6). \"Reasonable\" and \"fair and reasonable\" are not numerically defined and therefore allow discretionary judgment in implementation.\n  - Government/owner exposure limited: s 7 restricts compensation liability for variations caused by the Act, which reduces the budgetary risk for the Crown, Homes Victoria and the Municipality but narrows remedies available to private parties whose rights are altered.\n\n**Key decision points and discretionary powers**\n\n- The Director (Homes Victoria) and the Municipality decide sale terms within the early period (s 4(3)(a)); after that the Valuer‑General fixes price (s 4(3)(b)).\n- The Minister has multiple discretionary roles: approving the weekend green fee used in rent calculation (Sch 2), deciding membership counts for rent disputes (Sch 2), and determining the Club’s hours of exclusive use if the parties cannot agree (Sch 7). Some of these functions are expressed in wide terms (e.g. the Minister’s enquiries and determinations).\n\n**Implementation risks, trade‑offs and enforcement issues**\n\n- Enforcement: the Act relies on criminal penalties and the registered‑proprietor obligation (s 5) to protect public access, but terms like \"reasonable\" and \"fair\" are subjective and may produce disputes.\n- Administrative burden: the Municipality must run a golf operation to the maintenance standards set out in the Schedule (detailed annual program and plant lists), which requires ongoing operational capacity and budget.\n- Redistribution of rights and limited remedies: the conversion of the sub‑lease to a lease with substituted Schedule terms and the broad limit on compensation (s 6–7) change legal positions of existing parties and limit their ability to claim losses.\n\n(References: sections and Schedule clauses cited above.)"},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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