I decided a long time ago that I would not go to
I am over Popes, to be truthful.
However, that was before these outrageous Regulations were promulgated, last week.
It is modelled on the APEC legislation - the laws which brought us the arrest of the Chaser team, and then the subsequent expensive and embarrassing dropping of charges against them.
Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made
the following Regulation under the World Youth Day Act 2006.
World Youth Day Amendment Regulation 2008
under the
World Youth Day Act 2006
JOHN WATKINS, M.P.,
Deputy Premier
25 June 2008
Explanatory note
(f) empowers police officers and authorised members of the State Emergency Service and
the Rural Fire Service to direct a person within a World Youth Day declared area to cease engaging in conduct that is a risk to the safety of the person or others, causes annoyance or inconvenience to participants in a World Youth Day event or obstructs
a World Youth Day event (proposed clause 7 (1)), and
(g) makes it an offence (carrying a maximum penalty of 50 penalty units, currently $5,500) to fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with such a direction (proposed clause 7 (2)), and
World Youth Day Amendment Regulation 2008
under the
World Youth Day Act 2006
7 Control of conduct within World Youth Day declared areas
(1) An authorised person may direct a person within a World Youth
Day declared area to cease engaging in conduct that:
(a) is a risk to the safety of the person or others, or
(b) causes annoyance or inconvenience to participants in a
World Youth Day event, or
(c) obstructs a World Youth Day event.
(2) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply
with a direction given to the person under subclause (1).
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(3) A person is not guilty of an offence under this clause unless it is
established that the authorised person warned the person that a
failure to comply with the direction is an offence.
WORLD YOUTH DAY ACT 2006
Order under Section 3A
(World Youth Day declared areas)
I, ROY WAKELIN-KING, Chief Executive Officer of the World Youth Day Co-ordination Authority, in accordance with
the functions under section 3A of the World Youth Day Act 2006 ("the WYD Act") that the Deputy Premier and Minister
administering the WYD Act has delegated to me under section 51A of the WYD Act by Instrument of Delegation dated 29 May 2008, and having determined that certain areas are required for hosting a World Youth Day event, or for the provision
of services in relation to a World Youth Day event, hereby DESIGNATE each area specified in Schedule A hereunder to be
a "World Youth Day declared area".
WORLD YOUTH DAY ACT 2006
Order under Section 46
(Control of sale and distribution of articles in certain public places)
I, ROY WAKELIN-KING, Chief Executive Officer of the World Youth Day Co-ordination Authority ("the Authority"),
in accordance with the functions under section 46 of the World Youth Day Act 2006 ("the WYD Act") that the Deputy
Premier and Minister administering the WYD Act has delegated to me under section 51A of the WYD Act by Instrument of Delegation dated 29 May 2008 and having consulted with the Council of the City of Sydney in respect of land within the City of Sydney to which this order applies hereby SPECIFY:
1. each area described in Part 1 of Schedule A hereunder, excluding any part of the area described in Part 3 of Schedule A hereunder, to be "an Authority controlled area" for the purposes of section 46 of the WYD Act; and
2. each public place, or any part of a public place, that is within 500 metres of a transport facility or interchange or a World Youth Day venue or facility, being a public place, or part of a public place, that is shown on a map referred to in Part 2 of Schedule A hereunder, excluding any part of the public place described in Part 3 of Schedule A
hereunder, to be an "Authority controlled area" for the purposes of section 46 of the WYD Act.
If I go I will wear a T-shirt with the following logo (on the front)
and photo (on the rear).
Surely a defence of truthfulness would get me over the narrow definition of "causing annoyance to participants in a World Youth Day event".
If not, I would love the opportunity to defend myself in court.
The photo is real, not faked up. Taken at Castel Gandolfo (Pope's Summer Residence) outside
It is a photo of me being introduced to Pope Paul VI, and about to kiss his ring.
Something to think about, eh?
Not many people could wear this T-shirt with it being "offensive", gratuitous or annoying to Pilgrims. It is almost too good an opportunity to resist.
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