Bookmakers Betting Tax Act Amendment Act 1970 (WA)

No. 74.] Bookmakers Betting Tax. [1970.

BOOKMAKERS BETTING TAX.

No. 74 of 1970.

AN ACT to amend the Bookmakers Betting Tax

Act, 1954-1959.

[Assented to 17th November, 1970.]

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:—

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

Betting Tax Act Amendment Act, 1970.

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

1954-1959, 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, 1954-1970.

1970.] Bookmakers Betting Tax. [No. 74.

2.	This Act shall come into operation on the	ment.
Commence-

first day of January nineteen hundred and seventy-

one.

3.	Section 2 of the principal Act is amended	Amendment
to s. 2.
(Bookmakers betting tax.)

(a)	by substituting for the passage "one and one-quarter per centum" in lines four and five of paragraph (b) the words "two per centum"; and
(b)	by substituting for the passage "one and one-half per centum" in line four of para- graph (c) the passage "two and one-half per centum".