Bookmakers (Amendment) Act 1994 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Bookmakers (Amendment) Act 1994

No. 29 of 1994

An Act to amend the Bookmakers Act 1985

[Notified in ACT Gazette S114: 28 June 1994]

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

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Bookmakers (Amendment) Act 1994.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on 1 July 1994.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Bookmakers Act 1985.1

Insertion

4.  After section 41 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Telephone betting

“41A.  A bookmaker shall not accept a bet by telephone unless—

(a)the bet is equal to or greater than the prescribed amount or the amount that may be won on the bet is equal to or greater than the prescribed amount;

(b)the bet is placed in accordance with the prescribed procedure; and

(c)the bet is recorded by means of prescribed equipment.

Penalty:  $3,000.

Interference with prescribed equipment

“41B.  A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, tamper or interfere with prescribed equipment referred to in paragraph 41A (c).

Penalty:  $5,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.”.

Insertion

5.  After section 55 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Maintenance of prescribed equipment

“55A.  (1)  The Minister may, in writing, authorise persons to perform specified duties in relation to the maintenance of prescribed equipment referred to in paragraph 41A (c).

“(2)  The Minister may, from time to time, give directions to a person authorised under subsection (1) with respect to the performance of his or her duties.

“(3)  A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, contravene a direction given under subsection (2).

Penalty:  $5,000.

“(4)  An instrument of authorisation under subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.”.

Regulations

6.  Section 56 of the Principal Act is amended—

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

“(aa)relating to the information that may be supplied by telephone by a bookmaker in the course of carrying on business as a bookmaker;”; and

(b)by omitting from paragraph (b) “$500” and substituting “$1,000”.

NOTE

1. Reprinted as at 31 August 1992.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 19 May 1994]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1994