Bookmakers Betting Levy Amendment Act 1998 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

BOOKMAKERS BETTING LEVY

AMENDMENT ACT 1998

No. 28 of 1998

AN ACT to amend the Bookmakers Betting Levy Act 1954.

[Assented to 30 June 1998.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Bookmakers Betting Levy

Amendment Act 1998.

No. 28] Bookmakers Betting Levy Amendment

s. 2 Act 1998

Commencement

2. This Act comes into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

Section 2 repealed and a section substituted

3. Section 2 of the Bookmakers Betting Levy Act 1954* is

repealed and the following section is substituted —

‘‘

Bookmakers’ betting levy

2. (1) The rate of bookmakers’ betting levy imposed by this Act and payable under the Betting Control Act 1954 is —

(a)	inrespectofabookmaker’sturnoverfrom betting on a sporting event or contingency approved under section 4B of the Betting Control Act 1954, the rate of 0.5%; and
(b)	inrespectoftheremainderofabookmaker’s turnover, the rate of 2%.

(2) In this section —

‘‘turnover’’ has the meaning given in section 14 (1) of

the Betting Control Act 1954.

’’.

[* Reprinted as approved 24 March 1971.

For subsequent amendments see 1996 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p. 21.]

By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Government Printer