Music Festivals Act 2019
10Requirement to hold briefings for health service providers
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10 Requirement to hold briefings for health service providers
10 Requirement to hold briefings for health service providers
(1) A music festival organiser for a music festival the Secretary has determined requires an agreed health and medical plan must hold a briefing, in accordance with this section, with a person engaged by the organiser to provide health services at the festival if representatives of a prescribed entity request the briefing.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(2) The briefings may be held at the following intervals—
(a) at least 48 hours before the start of the music festival,
(b) on the premises on which the festival is being held on the day the festival is due to start,
(c) within 21 days after the end of the festival.
(3) The music festival organiser must, at least 7 days before the briefing, notify each prescribed entity of the date, time and location of the briefing.
(4) A representative of a prescribed entity may attend the briefing.
(5) In this section—
prescribed entity means the following—
(a) the Secretary,
(b) NSW Police Force,
(c) Fire and Rescue NSW,
(d) NSW Rural Fire Service,
(e) the Ministry of Health,
(f) the council of the local government area in which the premises on which the music festival is to be held are situated,
(g) Ambulance Service of NSW.
s 10: Am 2021 No 32, Sch 1.12[6] [9]; 2024 No 61, Sch 1[23]–[25].