South Australia
National Soldiers Memorial Act 1949
An Act to vest in the Corporation of the City of Adelaide the care, control, and management of the National Soldiers Memorial and for incidental purposes.

Contents
1	Short title
2	Control of National Soldiers Memorial
3	By-laws
Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the National Soldiers Memorial Act 1949.
2—Control of National Soldiers Memorial
	(1)	The care, control, and management of the piece of land in the hundred of Adelaide, shown in the plan signed "J. H. McNamara, Surveyor-General", and deposited in the Land Office on the twenty-sixth day of August, 1934, and numbered No. 316, which said piece of land is therein marked "Site for Soldiers' Memorial" shall be vested in the Corporation of the City of Adelaide.
	(2)	Despite the repeal of section 3 of the Government House Domain Dedication Act 1927, the land referred to in subsection (1) continues to be land dedicated for the purpose of being used as a site for a National Soldiers Memorial and for incidental purposes, and the land continues to be reserved for all time for those purposes and must not be used for any other purpose (and nothing in this Act is to be taken to affect or limit the dedication and reservation of that land).
	(3)	Nothing in this Act shall impose upon the Corporation of the City of Adelaide any obligation in respect of the maintenance, lighting or cleansing of any building on the said land.
3—By-laws
	(1)	The Municipal Council of the City of Adelaide may make by-laws for all or any of the following purposes:
	I	for the protection and management of the said land and any buildings and other improvements thereon;
	II	for securing orderly and decent behaviour on the part of persons upon the said land and otherwise for regulating the conduct of persons upon the said land;
	III	prescribing penalties recoverable summarily and not exceeding forty dollars for breach of any by-law.
	(2)	All by-laws made pursuant to this section shall be made in manner prescribed by the provisions of Division 1 of Part 39 of the Local Government Act 1934 and the said provisions shall apply in respect of every such by-law.
	(3)	The power given by this section shall be in addition to any other power to make by-laws which may be exercised by the Municipal Council of the City of Adelaide.

Legislative history
Notes
	•	For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au.
Principal Act and amendments
New entries appear in bold.
Year	No	Title	Assent	Commencement	
1949	38	National Soldiers Memorial Act 1949	24.11.1949	24.11.1949	
2016	3	Government House Precinct Land Dedication Act 2016	3.3.2016	Sch 2 (cll 2 & 3)—24.3.2016 (Gazette 24.3.2016 p1026)	
Provisions amended since 3 February 1976
New entries appear in bold.
Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.
Provision	How varied	Commencement	
Preamble	deleted by 3/2016 Sch 2 cl 2	24.3.2016	
s 2			
s 2(2)	substituted by 3/2016 Sch 2 cl 3	24.3.2016