Betting Control Act Amendment Act 1960 (WA)

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BETTING CONTROL

9° Elizabeth II., No. XLIX.

No. 49 of 1960.

AN ACT to amend the Betting Control Act,

1954-1959.

[Assented to 28th November, 1960.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Betting

Control Act Amendment Act, 1960.

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Reprinted	(2) In this Act the Betting Control Act, 1954-
Acts

approved	1959, is referred to as the principal Act.
for reprint,
lath Febru-

ary, 1959,	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act
and further

amended by may be cited as the Betting Control Act, 1954-1960.

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of 1959.

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Commence-

2. This Act shall come into operation on a day ment.

to be fixed by proclamation.

Long title

The long title to the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "Bookmakers" in line five thereof, the words, "or the Totalisator Agency Board."	amended.
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4. Section four of the principal Act is amended amended.

by substituting for the interpretation, "Board" the

following interpretation:

`Board" means the Totalisator Agency Board constituted under the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960.

5. Section five of the principal Act is amended agenda

by adding after subsection (2) the following sub-

section:—

(2a) No bet on a horse in a race shall be made with or accepted by a bookmaker who holds a license to carry on the business of a bookmaker at registered premises, or with his employee, unless

(a)	it is made and accepted at odds in respect of the horse, as deter- mined after the race is run by the totalisator established on the race course where the race was run; or
(b)	where the bet is made on a horse in a race on which the Board conducts a totalisator pool in accordance with the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960, the bet is made and accepted at odds in respect of the horse as determined after the race is run by the Board under that Act.

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repealed.	6.	Section six of the principal Act is repealed.
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amended.	7.	Section seven of the principal Act is amended

by substituting for the word, "The" in line one, the

passage, "For the purposes of this Act, the."

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repeated.	8.	Section eight of the principal Act is repealed.
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amended. 9. Section sixteen of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by adding after the word, "payment" in paragraph (c) of subsection (3), the passage, "for the use of Her Majesty,"; and
(b)	by repealing subsections (3a), (3b) and (4) of the section.

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amended. 10. Section sixteen A of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by deleting the words, "and in sections sixteen B and sixteen C of this Act" in lines one and two of subsection (1);
(b)	by adding after the word, "Act" being the last word in the interpretation, "off course turnover", the passage, "and includes the amounts of money received by the Board in respect of bets at totalisator agencies, in accordance with the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960";
(c)	by deleting the interpretation, "racing year";
(d)	by adding after the word, "bookmaker" in line one of subsection (2), the words, "and the Board";
(e)	by adding after the word, "his" in line one of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) the words, "or its"; and

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(f) by adding after subsection (3) a subsection

as follows:

(4) The Board shall in respect of every

bet made through or with the Board collect from the person placing the bet, where the bet is made in cash, or debit the credit account on which the bet is made where the bet is not made in cash, the amount of investment tax payable in respect of that bet.

11. The principal Act is amended by repealing %ire:peered

sections sixteen B and sixteen C.

12. Subsection (1) of section twenty-three of the 92! amended.

principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "Act", being the last word in paragraph (b), the passage, "or the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960."

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13. Section twenty-seven of the principal Act is amended.

amended

(a)	by substituting for the word, "case" in line one of paragraph (c) the words, "of those cases"; and
(b)	by adding after the word, "Act" being the last word in paragraph (c) the following passage and paragraph-

; Or

(d) unless the betting is done with or through the Board in accordance with the provisions of the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960.

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14. Section thirty-five of the principal Act is repealed and

repealed and re-enacted as follows:— re-enacted.

35. (1) The provisions of this Act other than

sections fourteen, so far as it relates to on course

turnover, fifteen, sixteen A, twenty-five and this

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section do not apply to any part of the State that is a proclaimed totalisator agency region under the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960, but in relation to a person who is the holder of a license that entitles him to carry on the business of a bookmaker in person upon a race course, if he holds a permit to do so from the committee or other authority control- ling the race course, the provisions of this Act continue to apply to and in respect of that person, whether or not the race course is or is not within a proclaimed totalisator agency region.

(2) The provisions of section twenty-five of this Act apply in a proclaimed totalisator agency region as though the Board were a bookmaker within the meaning of this Act.