Betting Control Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1993 (WA)

24 December 1993] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 6839

RACING AND GAMING

RA301 BETTING CONTROL ACT 1954

BETTING CONTROL AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (NO. 2) 1993

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Betting Control Amendment

Regulations (No. 2) 1993.

Principal regulations

2.     In these regulations the Betting Control Regulations 1978* are referred

to as the principal regulations.

f* Reprinted as at 10 September 1992.1

Regulation 14 amended

3.     Regulation 14 of the principal regulations is amended by adding the

subregulation following —

it

(8) A bookmaker's licence which is endorsed to that effect authorizes the licensee to carry on the business of a bookmaker, in relation to horse or greyhound racing, by means of on-course telephone betting conducted in accordance with regulation 72.

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Regulation 71 amended

4. Regulation 71 of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) in subregulation (2) (f), by deleting "the tapes used to record betting transactions" and substituting the following —

. tapes, when used to record betting transactions, "; and

(b) in subregulation (4), by deleting "betting".

Regulation 72 added

5. After regulation 71 of the principal regulations the following regulation

(a)	in accordance with the procedures established and approved by the Board for the conduct of such betting;
(b)	if the committee or other authority controlling the racecourse so permits;
(c)	if the bet is on a race being conducted at any other race meeting in the State, if the committee or other authority controlling that other race meeting so permits; and
(d)	if the amount of the bet is not less than $250, or if the amount to be won on the bet is not less than
$2 000,

is added —

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Telephone betting on horse or greyhound racing

72. (1) A licensee who is so authorized by endorsement on the licence may carry on business as a bookmaker by means of on- course telephone betting in relation to horse or greyhound racing —

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and not otherwise.

(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1) the Board has

established the following procedures —

(a) the telephone system to be used shall be of a type approved by the Board;

(b) all inward and outward telephone lines used for betting purposes shall have attached securable voice logging equipment of a type approved by the Board;

(c) consent to the voice logging of the betting transactions is to be obtained from all telephone bettors;

(d)

all betting transactions by telephone shall be recorded through the voice logging equipment;

(e)

the full details of each bet received, including the betting ticket number and account number, shall be confirmed with the bettor by the bookmaker, or an agent or employee of the 'bookmaker, before the conclusion of the telephone conversation;

(f)

tapes, when used to record betting transactions, shall —

(i)	be held and distributed by stewards;
(ii)	at the end of each race meeting, be collected by the Betting Steward; and
(iii)	be maintained as betting records for inspection or audit by any authorized person;

and

(g) the voice logging equipment used shall be sealed by, and only accessible by or in conjunction with, a Betting Steward or other authorized person.

(3) The details of all bets received by telephone are to be separately recorded and, for the purposes of section 15 of the Act, included in the returns to be delivered under the Act.

(4) Where an offer of a bet by telephone is not confirmed as required by the procedures established by the Board that transaction does not constitute a valid bet.	),
Dated 21 December 1993.

By His Excellency's Command,

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.