When you complete our event application form our Deputy Municipal Building Surveyor will assess the application and advise if your event is exempt from a POPE permit.
The regulations exempt community-based organisations from the requirements of an occupancy permit for place of public entertainment, if:
- Regulation 206(1)(b) prescribes a class of places as a place with an area greater than 500m2 unless:
- (i) the place is used for the purposes of conducting an event or activity which is organised and controlled by a community-based organisation; and
- (ii) the number of persons in the place at any one time during the event or activity does not exceed 5000.
- Regulation 206(2) clarifies that a community-based organisation means a body that:
- (i) is not established primarily for the purposes of profit or gain; and
- (ii) does not distribute any part of any profit or gain made in the conduct of its activities to any member of the organisation; and
- (iii) operates in a community wholly for:
- a. a philanthropic or benevolent purpose including promotion of art, culture, science, religion, education, or charity, or
- b. any sporting or recreational purpose, including the benefitting of any sporting or recreational club or association.
In some instances, community-based organisations host events that require an occupancy permit for POPE. These events are larger scale (e.g., the number of persons in the place at any one time during the event or activity exceeds 5,000 in a place larger than 500m²), where the event is conducted in an enclosed or semi enclosed place and entry to the event is controlled, or to which admission can be gained by payment of an admission fee or other consideration.