Sydney Opera House Trust By-law 2021
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9 Prohibited activities on Opera House premises
9 Prohibited activities on Opera House premises
(1) A person must not do the following on the Opera House premises—
(a) sell, hire, display for sale or hire or solicit for sale or hire a service, article or thing,
(b) distribute an article or thing for commercial or promotional purposes,
(c) conduct, or cause or assist in the conduct of, an amusement, entertainment, instruction or performance,
(d) conduct, or cause or assist in the conduct of, a public demonstration,
(e) use an audio, loudspeaker or broadcasting equipment or camera, whether photographic, cinematic or video, for commercial purposes,
(f) use a device to record or transmit sound or images for commercial purposes,
(g) distribute or display, by oral, visual, written, electronic or other means, an advertisement, sign, bill, poster or other promotional material,
(h) undertake a charitable collection,
(i) operate a radio or other electronic device, or play a musical instrument, at a volume likely to cause inconvenience to another person,
(j) operate a public address system, loudspeaker or similar device,
(k) allow an animal that is under the person’s care or control onto the premises,
(l) deface, damage, obscure or interfere with a sign or notice displayed on the premises,
(m) launch or land an aircraft.
Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
(2) Subclause (1)(k) does not prohibit a person who has a disability from bringing an assistance animal onto the Opera House premises.
(3) A person must not smoke in an area of the Opera House premises unless a sign designates the area as an area in which smoking is permitted.
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
(4) In this clause—
animal means a non-human mammal or a bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, crustacean, insect, arachnid, arthropod or mollusc.
assistance animal and disability have the same meanings as in the of the Commonwealth.