(1) A special event management declaration may provide that the Secretary or the Trust is to have specified functions, powers and duties in relation to the Carlton Gardens Reserve during the whole or specified parts of the declaration period.
(2) The functions, powers and duties may include—
(a) a power, with the consent of the Minister, to enter into agreements or arrangements with an event organiser; and
(b) any power required to undertake, organise or facilitate a special event; and
(c) any function, power or duty conferred by any other Part of this Act or any other Act on the trustees or the committee of management of the Carlton Gardens Reserve in that capacity; and
(d) a power to fix opening and closing times for public access to the special event management area or part of that area.
(3) A special event management declaration cannot confer power to permit the use of the Carlton Gardens Reserve for a purpose that is inconsistent with the reservation of the land unless it is a purpose that is, or is connected with, an exhibition purpose.
S. 29L(4) amended by No. 38/2024 s. 20.
(4) The functions, powers and duties conferred on the Trust by a special event management declaration are in addition to those set out in the Victorian Convention and Event Trust Act 1996 .
S. 29M inserted by No. 14/2008 s. 4.