4   Status of Wagga Wagga Racecourse

(1)  The deed-poll or grant from the Crown, dated 10 September 1866, granting Wagga Wagga Racecourse to Thomas Wardle Hammond, Edward Charles Pearson and Henry Wallace and their heirs and assigns is, to the extent that it applies to the Wagga Wagga Racecourse, cancelled and revoked.

(2)  The Wagga Wagga Racecourse is declared to be land vested in the Crown that is dedicated under section 80 of the Crown Lands Act 1989 for the following public purposes:

(a)  for use as a racecourse for horse racing,

(b)  for use as a training ground for race horses,

(c)  for use as a cricket ground or for any other form of sporting or recreational activity,

(d)  for any other form of public amusement or public purpose that the Governor has, by order published in the Gazette, declared to be a form of public amusement or public purpose for which the Racecourse, or a specified part of the Racecourse, is permitted to be used.

(3)  Part 5 of the Crown Lands Act 1989 (Dedication and reservation of land), and such of the other provisions of that Act as are relevant to the operation of that Part, apply to the Wagga Wagga Racecourse. This subsection has effect despite subsection (2).

(4)  Nothing in this section affects the operation of any lease of the Wagga Wagga Racecourse that was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act.

(5)  No attornment to the reserve trust by a lessee or sublessee from the former trustee is required.