San Fernando Recreation Ground
SAN FERNANDO RECREATION GROUND ACT

CHAPTER 41:02

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Act
24 of 1930

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Index of Subsidiary Legislation

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Note on Adaptation

Under paragraph 6 of the Second Schedule to the Law Revision Act (Ch. 3:03) the Commission
amended certain references to public officers in this Chapter. The Minister’s approval of the
amendments was signified by LN 120/1980, but no marginal reference is made to this Notice
where any such amendment is made in the text.

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CHAPTER 41:02

SAN FERNANDO RECREATION GROUND ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Funds for purchase and upkeep, etc.
3. Power to borrow for laying out ground, etc.
4. Bye-laws.
5. Power to remove or arrest.

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CHAPTER 41:02

SAN FERNANDO RECREATION GROUND ACT

An Act to enable the Mayor and Burgesses of San Fernando
to acquire and maintain a Recreation Ground.

[20TH NOVEMBER 1930]

1. This Act may be cited as the San Fernando Recreation
Ground Act.

2. The Mayor and Burgesses of San Fernando (hereinafter
called the Council) may appropriate out of the corporate funds
such sum or sums as may be necessary to acquire by purchase or
demise and to maintain as a Recreation Ground the parcel of land
situated at Les Efforts Estate in the Ward of South Naparima
delineated in the plan deposited in the Director of Surveys Office
prepared by George FitzGerald, Sworn Surveyor, and signed by
Philip Theophilus Vilain, Mayor of San Fernando.

3. The Council may, with the sanction of the Minister and
on such terms as to repayment as the Minister may approve, borrow
such sum or sums of money as they may consider requisite for
defraying the cost of laying out the said land as a Recreation Ground
and erecting the necessary buildings and conveniences for the
proper use of the said land as a Recreation Ground.

4. The Council may make Bye-laws for all or any of the
following purposes:

(a) as to the use by the public of the Recreation
Ground and as to the times and the conditions
of admission to the same or to any of the
buildings thereon;

(b) prohibiting wilful damage to the Recreation
Ground and to the fences or buildings thereon;

(c) prohibiting disorderly behaviour, violent, abusive,
or obscene language, and betting, or gambling,
or loitering on the Recreation Ground after
closing hours.

1950 Ed.
Ch. 39 No. 8.
24 of 1930.

Commencement.

Short title.

Funds for
purchase and
upkeep, etc.

Power to borrow
for laying out
ground, etc.

Bye-laws.

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5. Any member of the Police Service or any other person
appointed by the Council in that behalf may—

(a) exclude or remove from the Recreation Ground
any person creating a disturbance or behaving in
a disorderly or unseemly manner;

(b) arrest without warrant any person who within his
view commits any breach of any Bye-law made
under this Act, if the name and address of the
person is unknown to such member of the Police
Service or person, or if such person continues to
commit the breach after being warned to desist,
and detain him in custody until he can be
conveniently brought before a Magistrate to be
dealt with according to law.

Power to
remove or
arrest.

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

SAN FERNANDO RECREATION GROUND
BYE-LAWS

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS
BYE-LAW

1. Citation.
2. Interpretation.
3. Closing hours.
4. Restriction.
5. Application for use of ground.
6. Field marking.
7. Keeping off field.
8. Admission fee.
9. Prohibition.

10. Bicycle riding.
11. Driving vehicle.
12. Re-entry to ground.
13. Penalty.

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[Subsidiary]

SAN FERNANDO RECREATION GROUND BYE-LAWS

made under section 4

1. These Bye-laws may be cited as the San Fernando
Recreation Ground Bye-laws.

2. (1) In these Bye-laws—
“Council” means the Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of

San Fernando;
“game” means a game arranged or organised by the Council or

by any Association or Club duly authorised by the Council.
(2) A writing under the hand of the Town Clerk to the

effect that an Association or Club is authorised to arrange or
organise a game or a series of games shall be sufficient evidence
that the authorisation has been granted by the Council.

3. Unless otherwise ordered by the Council, the Recreation
Ground shall be closed daily from 7.00 p.m. of one day to 6.00 a.m.
of the following day.

4. No person shall pass over, under, or through any railing,
fence, gate or turnstile of the Recreation Ground and shall not
enter the Ground except through a gate or turnstile lawfully open.

5. Applications for the use of sites for games or other forms
of recreation must be made to the Council, who may in their
discretion allot or refuse sites, and any site when so allotted
shall be registered in a book kept for the purpose by the Council.
No site shall be allotted for more than a year at any one time.

6. The field of play for a game shall be marked out on the
ground by lines or flags or in any other manner as the Council
may direct.

7. Every person while a game is in progress shall keep outside
and at such distance as the Council may direct from the field of
play referred to in bye-law 6.

G. 6. 12.41.

Citation.

Interpretation.

Closing hours.

Restriction.

Application for
use of ground.

Field marking.

Keeping
off field.

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[Subsidiary] San Fernando Recreation Ground Bye-laws

Admission fee.

Prohibition.

Bicycle riding.

Driving vehicle.

Re-entry to
ground.

Penalty.

8. The Council may charge such fees as they may consider
proper for the admission of any person to the Recreation Ground
and may exclude any person refusing to pay such fees.

9. No person shall sit or climb upon any fence, gate or
turnstile of the Recreation Ground.

10. No person shall ride any bicycle or similar machine on
any walk or footpath in the Recreation Ground.

11. No person shall drive any cart, carriage or other vehicle,
or drive or lead any animal, in the Recreation Ground save at such
times and subject to such restrictions as the Council may prescribe.

12. No person who has been removed or excluded from the
Recreation Ground on any day shall attempt to re-enter or shall
re-enter thereon on the same day.

13. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of
these Bye-laws is liable on summary conviction to a fine of
seventy-five dollars.

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