Review of the Registered Clubs Industry in NSW - Clubs NSW

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12 Making it easier for new clubs to be established Councils also purchase land for community facilities. It is open to clubs and councils to work together to develop community facilities. One party could provide the land and the other the facilities and services. ClubsNSW presented the example of Blacktown Workers Club in a submission (see Box 12.1). Box 12.1 Blacktown Workers Sports Club Blacktown Workers Sports Club is located on approximately 50 hectares of land in Blacktown. The cost of constructing the premises was $8 million and took, from concept to completion, 18 months. Club facilities include: 100 gaming machines and TAB members’ courtesy bus bar facility, members’ bottle shop and buffet outdoor barbecue and entertainment area lounge administration. The sporting complex features two soccer fields, two rugby league fields/cricket ovals, two bowling greens, five all weather tennis courts and a baseball diamond. Other facilities include on-site storm water treatment, on-grade and multi-level car park, and a Travelodge motel. Blacktown Council assisted this development by rezoning the site to make the multiple uses permissible. Source: ClubsNSW submission, 31 July 2007, pp 125-127. Recommendation 63 That councils, in purchasing land for community facilities, make allowance for the establishment of a registered club. Important aspects of this recommendation are that: – The land is not provided on a first come first served basis. When an organisation approaches a local council to establish a registered club on that particular piece of land, this should trigger a tender process where all local groups and clubs are invited to bid for the rights to establish a registered club on that land. – The winning tender for that piece of land would need to be determined on a merits basis, including financial viability, how well services and facilities meet demands of the community, and any potential negative impacts that may result. – The parcel of land should contain a sunset date whereby if after, say, 15 years, no group has applied for the rights to develop a registered club on that piece of land, then council should be able to develop it for other purposes. 204 IPART Review of the Registered Clubs Industry in NSW
12 Making it easier for new clubs to be established 12.3.3 Continue to provide new clubs with access to 10 free gaming machine entitlements until alternative measures to assist new clubs are in place Stakeholders identified three main areas in the legislation as a hindrance to club establishment: 1. New clubs have access to only 10 free gaming machine entitlements. Stakeholders argued that the current allowance of 10 free gaming machine entitlements is insufficient to financially support a club’s ongoing operations, and some peak bodies called for an increase in this allowance. The Leagues Clubs’ Association of NSW submitted that clubs providing significant infrastructure should have access 100 plus free gaming machine entitlements. 238 Similarly, ClubsNSW argued that the NSW Government should allow access to an appropriate number of free gaming machine entitlements that allows the club to provide the level of facility desired in a new community. 239 2. Clubs transferring gaming machine entitlements between club premises are required to forfeit gaming machine entitlements. Many clubs put the view that setting up satellite clubs is not feasible, due to the restrictions on transferring gaming machine entitlements between club premises. The movement of gaming machines between club premises is subject to the forfeiture scheme. Under this scheme, if a club wants to move gaming machine entitlements to a satellite club, it must forfeit one gaming machine entitlement for every two to three gaming machine entitlements it transfers. 240 This effectively penalises a club by reducing its entitlements. 3. If a club that established a satellite club wanted to apply for more entitlements, and this exceeded the club’s SIA threshold, it would also have to go through the SIA process. Clubs argued that this further reduces the feasibility of opening satellite clubs by adding another layer of costs. IPART notes that the report on review of the Gaming Machines Act includes proposals that relate to these three issues. The proposed changes are to: Reduce the state-wide cap on gaming machines and provide a mechanism for the automatic reduction of the cap over time. Eliminate access to 10 free entitlements, as this inhibits the proposal to reduce the overall state cap on gaming machines. Instead, the report proposes to develop other mechanisms, in consultation with the industry, to assist small clubs and new clubs (particularly in greenfield areas). Relax the restriction on gaming machine transfers for related clubs by removing the forfeiture ratio for transfers within the same LGA and changing the forfeiture ratio to one entitlement for every six that is transferred for inter-LGA transfers. 238 Leagues Clubs’ Association of NSW submission, 8 April 2008, p 2. 239 ClubsNSW submission, 4 April 2008, p 33. 240 Gaming Machines Act, Section 20. Forfeiture rules apply unless both club premises are located within 1km of each other for metropolitan locations and 50km for non-metropolitan clubs. Review of the Registered Clubs Industry in NSW IPART 205
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