Bookmakers Betting Tax Act Amendment Act 1959 (WA)

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BOOKMAKERS BETTING TAX.

8° Elizabeth II., No. LXXVII.

No. 77 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the Bookmakers Betting Tax

Act, 1954-1956.

[Assented to 14th December, 19591

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Bookmakers Short title and citation--

Betting Tax Act Amendment Act, 1959.

(2) In this Act the Bookmakers Betting Tax Act,

1954-1956, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Bookmakers Betting Tax Act, 1954-1959.

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Section 2

amended. 2. Section two of the principal Act is amended

by

(a)	deleting the word, "and" immediately following paragraph (c);
(b)	adding after paragraph (d) the word, "and";

(c) adding the following paragraph

Rates on

off-course	(e) is, in respect of turnover mentioned
turnover

after com-	in paragraph (f) of subsection (2) of
mencement
of Betting	section fourteen of the Betting on so much of that turnover as does not exceed twenty-five thousand pounds, at the rate of two and one-quarter per centum;
Control Act
Amendment	Control Act, 1954—
Act. 1959.

(ii)    on so much of that turnover as exceeds twenty-five thousand pounds but does not exceed fifty thousand pounds, at the rate of two and three-quarters per centum;

(iii)    on so much of that turnover as exceeds fifty thousand pounds but does not exceed seventy- five thousand pounds, at the rate of three and one-quarter per centum;

(iv)    on so much of that turnover as exceeds seventy-five thousand pounds but does not exceed one hundred thousand pounds, at the rate of three and three- quarters per centum;

(v)    on so much of that turnover as exceeds one hundred thousand pounds but does not exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds, at the rate of four and one-quarter per centum;

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(vi)  on so much of that turnover as exceeds one hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds but does not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, at the rate of four and' three-quarters per centum;

(vii)    on so much of that turnover as exceeds one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, at the rate of three and one-half per centum.