Betting Control Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

1963.] Betting Control. [No. 28.

BETTING CONTROL

12° Elizabeth II., No. XXVIII.

No. 28 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend section five of the Betting Control

Act, 1954-1961.

[Assented to 13th November, 1963.]

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:—

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

Control Act Amendment Act, 1963.

(2) In this Act the Betting Control Act, 1954-1961, Mgrfor

is referred to as the principal Act.	reprint
11th April,
1963.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Betting Control Act, 1954-1963.

No. 28.] Betting Control. [1963.

S. 5

amended. 2. Section five of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by substituting for the word, "No", being the first word in subsection (2a), the passage, "Subject to subsection (2b) of this section, no"; and
(b)	by adding after subsection (2a) a sub- section as follows:—

(2b) (a) If the odds in relation to a bet to which subsection (2a) of this section applies are, as determined in accordance with that subsection, in excess of the prescribed odds for that bet, the bookmaker who has made or accepted the bet is required to pay the bet at the prescribed odds only.

(b) For the purposes of this sub- section, "prescribed odds" in relation to a bet means odds of-

(i)   fifty to one for a bet for a win and twelve to one for a bet for a place in respect of a horse in a horse race run on a race course outside the State and on a race course in the Metropolitan Area of the State; and

(ii)    thirty-three to one for a bet for a win and eight to one for a bet for a place in respect of a horse in a horse race run on a race course in the State but out- side of the Metropolitan Area of the State.