A guide focusing on the key aspects of event planning and the council’s event requirements. It provides a useful reference but is not a definitive source.
International Event Guidance
Search our database of official rules and guidance to find the information you need to plan your events.
A guide for Organising Events in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield
A guide to the training requirements under the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002 as from 1 July 2011
A guide with introductory information for security. It includes details about general guarding, guarding with dogs, firearms, crowd control, bodyguards and licensees in Tasmania.
A Police Crowded Places Guided Self-Assessment
A guide highlighting the threats that occur in large crowds and how they can be overcome to ensure saftey.
A step-by-step guide to running sustainable events in Queensland (DOWNLOAD)
A guide designed for event supervisors and managers which can also be used by waste contractors, local councils and waste educators.
A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013
The study provides clarity on these threats from 2014 on “active shooter” incidents, designed to help law enforcement with data so they can better understand how to prevent, prepare for and recover from these incidents.
Accessible Events: A Guide For Organisers
A guide developed by the meetings and events industry of Australia it is in partnership with the human rights and equal opportunity commission and is designed for people organising events to ensure accessibility for all.
Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places
Guidelines designed to increase the understanding of an active armed offender in a crowd. They highlight key roles for owners and operators: so they can prevent, prepare and respond to the risks proposed by such a threat.
Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places Appendix A: Current security context
Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places, Appendix A
Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded PlacesAppendix B: Active armed offender attack – advice for owners and operators of crowded places
Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places, Appendix B
Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded PlacesAppendix C: Active Armed Offender attack – initial action advice for individuals
Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places, Appendix C
Active Shooter Guidelines for Places of Mass Gathering
Guidelines designed to increase the understanding of threats posed by an active shooter. They highlight key roles for owners and operators: so they can prevent, prepare and respond to the risks proposed by such a threat.
Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Act 1971
An Act establishing the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, defining the functions and powers, to provide for the Adelaide Festival Centre management and operations.
Adelaide Festival Corporation Act 1998
An Act to establish the Adelaide Festival Corporation; to provide for the conduct of the
Adelaide Festival of Arts; and for other purposes.
Adelaide Festival Theatre Act 1964
An Act to provide for the erection in the City of Adelaide of a Festival Theatre and for the
financing there of and matters connected therewith and incidental there to and for other
purposes.
Adelaide Park Lands Events Management Plan 2016−2020
A document aim to strike a balance between events in park lands and recognising their unique environmental needs of event sites. The plan looks at identifying suitable event spaces in parkland and providing guidance on how to fit the event types of the site.
Adelaide Show Grounds (Regulations and By-laws) Act 1929
An Act to empower the Governor to make regulations and the Council of the Royal
Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia Incorporated, to make by-laws
for certain purposes.
Adult Proof of Age Card Act 2008
An Act to provide for the issue to a person of at least 15 years of a card that may be used as proof of the age of its holder, and matters relating to the card
Alcohol and Drug Dependency Act 1968
An Act making provisions for the treatment and control of people suffering with alcohol dependency or drug dependency. It brings an end to the provisions of the Inebriates Act 1885 and the Inebriate Hospitals Act 1892 and certain provisions of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1959.
Alcohol and Drug Dependency Regulations 2009
Regulations under the Alcohol and Drug Dependency Act 1968.
Alcohol and drugs
Police guidance and contacts for reporting Alcohol and Drugs
Alcohol and Licensed Premises: Best Practice in Policing A Monograph for Police and Policy Makers
A project aiming to develop a document for police services all across Australia identify the best practice strategies to reduce alcohol-related harm in licensed premises.
Alcohol and Other Drugs Act 1974
An act with three main parts are; providing treatment, management, care and habilitation of people experiencing alcohol or drug use problems, promoting and subsidising research and education into alcohol and other drug use problems, establishing a coordinated focus on alcohol and other drug through the mental health implications.
Alcohol, Drugs & the Law For young people
Guidance for young people regarding the consumption and purchasing of Alcohol and Drugs
Alcohol, Teenage Parties and the Law
Information on Victorian law in relation to under age drinking and providing suggestions for minimising the harm.
Alternative Uses Of Sports Grounds
Alternative Uses of Sports Grounds give advice to sports grounds that may host alternate
events such as religious gatherings and concerts.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.
An Act relating to the criminal law, and for other purposes
An Act relating to the criminal law, and for other purposes
An Act relating to the criminal law, and for other purposes
An Act relating to the criminal law, and for other purposes
An empirical basis for the ratio of crowd controllers to patrons
Factors that impact the ratios of crowd control and the tools and steps needed to take during certain public scenarios at events and venues.
An empirical basis for the ratio of crowd controllers to patrons
This study identifies key risk factors impacting the crowd controller to patron ratio decision and develops
decision aids (Crowd Controller Assessment Tools) for use by those faced with advising on, or making
decisions about, crowd management. In undertaking this enquiry, current Australian and international literature
were reviewed to contextualise the project and create a basis for understanding a range of factors that impact
crowd and alcohol-related violence in the context of public events and venues.