54Life Membership

54 Life Membership

54 Life Membership

(1) Venues NSW may, but is not obliged to, admit to Life Membership a person nominated in accordance with this clause.

(2) A person or State sporting body may, on or before 1 July in any year, nominate for Life Membership a person who meets the criteria set out in subclause (3), including a person who has previously been nominated but has not been admitted to Life Membership.

(3) Nominees must be persons who—

(a) are Australian citizens, and

(b) are of good standing in the community, and

(c) have contributed substantially to the development or operation of the scheduled lands or have, whether individually or as part of a team, either—

(i) represented the State during their sporting career in a sport that is staged regularly on the scheduled lands and achieved success, at the highest level of available competition, in that sport, or

(ii) attained an outstanding achievement in a sport, having regard to the level of international competition involved and the person’s overall standing in the sport concerned, and

(d) for a person referred to in paragraph (c)(i) or (ii)—have retired from elite competition or attained the outstanding achievement at least 2 years before the date of nomination.

(4) Venues NSW may request a relevant State sporting body to do either or both of the following—

(a) indicate whether or not the body endorses the nomination of a nominee,

(b) for 2 or more nominees from the same area of sport—indicate the body’s order of preference of nominees.

(5) A Life Member—

(a) becomes a Life Member at the commencement of the membership year immediately following the person’s nomination, and

(b) is entitled to the privileges for the time being attached to Life Membership—

(i) under this Regulation, or

(ii) as determined by Venues NSW.

(6) A Life Member is entitled to be admitted to—