Betting (Totalizator Agency) (Amendment) Act 1981 (ACT)

Betting (Totalizator Agency) (Amendment)

Ordinance 1981

N o . 12 of 1981

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Adminis­ tration) A ct 1910.

Dated 14 May 1981.

STANLEY BURBURY

Administrator

By His Excellency's Command,

MICHAEL HODGMAN

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

An Ordinance to amend the Betting (Totalizator Agency)

Ordinance 1964

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Betting (Totalizator Agency)

(Amendment)	Ordinance	1981. 1
Commencement

2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on such date as is fixed by the Minister of State for the Capital Territory by notice published in the Gazette.

(b)	by omitting sub-sections (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) and
substituting the following sub-sections:

Principal Ordinance

3 . In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Betting (Totaliz­

ator Agency) Ordinance 1964. 2

Repeal

4. Sections 28 and 28A of the Principal Ordinance are repealed.

Payments by the Board

5. Section 29 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) "one" and substituting "2" ; and

" ( 2 ) Subject to sub-section ( 5 ) , the Board shall pay to each prescribed race club once in each accounting period, out of the money set aside under sub-section ( 1 ) , an amount determined by the Minister.

" ( 3 ) The Minister may, at the expiration of each accounting year, direct the Board in writing to make specified payments out of such moneys of the Board as have not been applied during that
year in accordance with section 30 or 30A.

" ( 4 ) The Board shall comply with a direction given under sub­

section ( 3 ) .

" ( 5 ) In this section, 'prescribed race club' means a race club in

respect of which there is for the time being in force a determination

under sub-section	( 6 ) .
" ( 6 )	The Minister may, from time to time, determine that a race

club, being a body corporate incorporated under a law of the Terri­

tory, is a prescribed race club for the purposes of this section.".

Ordinary application of revenue of the Board

6. Section 30 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting "section 28 and".

Reserve Account

7. Section 30A of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (2 ) "section 28 and".

Board to keep Minister informed

8. Section 34 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting "past, present or proposed" after "its".

Payments to race clubs from previous trust account
9. The Australian Capital Territory Totalizator Agency Board shall, as

soon as practicable, distribute among the bodies that are prescribed race

clubs for the purposes of section 29 of the Principal Ordinance as amended	by this Ordinance, in such proportions as the Minister determines, the aggre­
gate of the amounts of money that were, at any time during the period commencing on 1 August 1980 and ending at the expiration of the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Ordinance, paid or payable to the Board trust account within the meaning of section 28 of the Principal Ordinance.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 0 M a y 1 9 8 1 .

2 .	N o .	14, 1964 as	amended	by	N o .	19 , 1 9 6 6 ; N o .	13, 1 9 6 8 ; N o .	2 4 , 1 9 6 9 ; N o . 1 3 ,	1 9 7 2 ;
N o .	3 5 , 1 9 7 3 ; N o .	4 7 ,	1 9 7 4 ; N o .	6 6 , 1 9 7 6 ; N o .	6 5 , 1 9 7 7 ; Nos .	30 and	4 6 , 1 9 7 8 ;	N o .	3 6 ,

1 9 7 9 ; N o . 7, 1980 .