Betting Control Act Amendment Act 1970 (WA)

No. 66.] Betting Control. [1970.

BETTING CONTROL.

No. 66 of 1970.

AN ACT to amend the Betting Control

Act, 1954-1970.

[Assented to 17th November, 1970.]

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

and citation. Control Act Amendment Act, 1970.

Vol, 17	(2) In this Act the Betting Control Act, 1954-1970,
Reprinted

Acts as	is referred to as the principal Act.
approved
for reprint
11th April,

1963, as	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may
amended

by Acts	be cited as the Betting Control Act, 1954-1970.
Nos. 28 of 1963 and 21 of 1970.

1970.] Bush Fires. [No. 67.

2.

Paragraph (g) of section twenty-one of the rsvment principal Act is amended by substituting for the ,Traggrn word "twenty-one" in line three, the word rgx=as.

"eighteen". persons, etc.)

3.    Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section Amendment

twenty-three of the principal Act is amended by opusOhibn

substituting for the word "nineteen" in line four, on in unss i

the word "twenty-one". . e acco lerdannce

with this

Act.)

4.    The principal Act is amended by adding after S. 3IA

section 31 a section as follows— added.

31A. (1) A member of the Police Force who, and a person who, at the request of such a

Certain

persons not

accomplices

and

member, makes a bet is deemed not to be an

evidence of

accomplice and is not guilty of an offence where

accomplices.

a complaint arising out of the making of that bet is made against another person; and the evidence of the member of the Police Force or the person who made the bet at his request is deemed, on the hearing of the complaint, not to be the evidence of an accomplice.

(2) In any proceedings against a person for an offence against this Act, an act, admission or statement of an employee or agent of that person is admissible as evidence, whether it is done, made or given in the presence of that person or not. .