Description
On 8 December 1952 Council resolved that the NSW University of Technology Sports' Association be the approved organisation to control and sponsor sport within the university (resolution 278). At the same meeting the Association's constitution was approved subject to review by the Parliamentary Draftsman, which listed the following objectives for the Association: a) to encourage, foster, promote, develop, extend and govern amateur sport within the university b) to establish amateur sporting clubs within the university c) to co-ordinate, encourage, assist and support the sporting activities of the various constituent clubs and to represent them in sporting competitions, matches and relations both within the university and with other sporting organisations d) to provide and maintain grounds, playing fields, materials, equipment and other facilities for amateur sport within the university e) to undertake and implement in such manner as it thinks fit such other matters related to any or all of the foregoing objects as may from time to time be deemed expedient by the General Committee. On 12 March 1953 a general meeting of students was held on the subject of the Sports Association, chaired by Professor J. P. Baxter. At that meeting the formation of the Sports Association was approved and office bearers elected, including the first president of the Association, Michael Kefford (file 00371228). The first meeting of the Association's General Committee took place on 1 April 1953. Following the change in name of the university on 7 October 1958, the name of the Association was changed to the University of New South Wales Sports Association. On 24 July 2007 a meeting of members of the Sports Association was held. At this meeting two motions were passed. The first was that the notion of motion to dissolve the Sports Association shall be given to the Honorary Secretary by the General Committee in meeting with the item on the agenda not less than fourteen clear days prior to an extraordinary general meeting which shall be convened with the item Dissolution of the Sports Association the only item on the agenda...If such a dissolution is agreed to by no-less than three quarters of those present and entitled to vote, the Sports Association shall inform the University Council and the Vice-Chancellor shall take control of the affairs, property, finances, staff and other responsibilities of the Sports Association. The second was that that the Sports Association approve the executive of an agreement with the university that will formally allow the transfer of the Sports Association's operations and assets to the UNSW Sport & Recreation with the provision of general commitments including future minimum funding at or around 1 September 2007 upon such terms and conditions as approved by the General Committee. This date was amended to 25 December 2007 before being passed (SRF - Sport & Recreation). This was reported at the 25 October 2007 meeting of the Student Affairs Committee (resolution SAC07/07) and as a result the Sports Association appears to have ceased to exist at the end of 2007 with its functions being transferred to the newly formed Sport and Recreation department. Subordinate agency: Rugby Union Football Club - 12/03/1953 - 25/10/2007 Subordinate agency: University of New South Wales Rugby League (1963 - 2001) / Rugby League & Oztag (2001 - c.2008) Club - 09/07/1963 - 25/10/2007 Subordinate agency: Hockey Club - 16/04/1953 - 25/10/2007 Subordinate agency: Bushwalking and Mountaineering Club (1978 - c. 2003) / Outdoor Club (c. 2003 - ) - 03/10/1978 - 25/10/2007 Subordinate agency: Mountaineering & Climbing Club (1967 - 1972) / Mountaineering Club (1972 - 1978) - 01/01/1969 - 03/10/1978 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 12/03/1953-?25/12/2007
