Betting (Totalizator Administration) (Amendment) Act 1994 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Betting (Totalizator Administration)
(Amendment) Act 1994

No. 99 of 1994

An Act to amend the Betting (Totalizator Administration) Act 1964

[Notified in ACT Gazette S280:  15 December 1994]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Betting (Totalizator Administration) (Amendment) Act 1994.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Betting (Totalizator Administration) Act 1964.1

Payments to the Territory

4.  Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting “5.75%” and substituting “the percentage determined under subsection (2)”; and

(b)by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(2)  The Minister may, in writing, determine a percentage for the purposes of subsection (1).”.

Payments to the Racecourse Development Fund

5.  Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting “0.5% or such other higher percentage determined in writing by the Minister,” and substituting “the percentage determined under subsection (2)”; and

(b)by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(2)  The Minister may, in writing, determine a percentage for the purposes of subsection (1).”.

Disallowable determinations

6.  Section 37 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by inserting before paragraph (a) the following paragraph:

“(aa)a determination of a percentage under subsection 32 (2);”; and

(b)by omitting from paragraph (c) “section 34” and substituting “subsection 34 (2)”.

NOTE

1. Reprinted as at 1 August 1993.  See also Act No. 38, 1994.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 10 November 1994]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1994