Gaming and Betting (Race-meetings) Amendment Act 1994 (NSW)

GAMING AND BETTING (RACE-MEETINGS) AMENDMENT

ACT 1994 No. 18

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title
2. Commencement

3. Amendment of Gaming and Betting Act 1912 NO. 25 (sec. 53AA)

GAMING AND BETTING (RACE-MEETINGS) AMENDMENT

ACT 1994 No. 18

Act No. 18, 1994

An Act to amend the Gaming and Betting Act 1912 to allow race-meetings to be held on a limited number of Sundays between 1 July 1994 and 30 June 2001. [Assented to 16 May 1994]

Gaming and Betting (Race-meetings) Amendment Act 1994 NO. 18

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Gaming and Betting (Race-meetings)

Amendment Act 1994.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the date of assent.

Amendment of Gaming and Betting Act 1912 No. 25 (sec. 53AA)

1. The Gaming and Betting Act 19 12 is amended by omitting section

53AA and by inserting instead the following section:

Race-meetings on Sundays for limited period
53AA. (1) The Minister may determine up to 6 Sundays, in each financial year occurring during the period commencing 1 July 1994 and ending 30 June 2001, on which race-meetings may be held. Race-meetings may be held on the Sundays as so determined.

(2) The Minister is to determine which racing clubs are to conduct
such race-meetings and on which race-courses they are to be held.
(3) Any Sunday determined in respect of a particular financial year

may be changed by the Minister to some other Sunday in that financial

year.

(4) If race-meetings are not held on the maximum number of Sundays determined in respect of a particular financial year because all the race-meetings that would have been held on any such Sunday were cancelled or abandoned, the Minister may determine that race-meetings may instead be held on an alternative Sunday in a subsequent financial year during the period referred to in subsection (1). If such a determination is made, the limit on the number of Sundays on which race-meetings may be held in that subsequent financial year is, despite subsection (l), correspondingly increased by the number of Sundays determined in respect of the earlier financial year on which race-meetings were cancelled or abandoned.
(5) Sunday race-meetings held under this section are to be disregarded for the purposes of any limit imposed, by or under any other provision of this Act, on the number of days on which race-meetings are allowed on race-courses.

(6) The Minister is to calculate, and notify the Treasurer of, the amount of money that is paid into the Consolidated Fund as a result of betting on horse, greyhound or harness racing at Sunday race-meetings held under this section.

Gaming and Betting (Race-meetings) Amendment Act 1994 No. 18

(7) This section has effect despite section 53 or any other provision of this or any other Act. However, nothing in this section allows a race-meeting to be held on Christmas Day.

(8) In this section, “financial year” means a period of 12 months

commencing on 1 July.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Legislative Assembly on 17 March 1994
Legislative Council on 20 April 1994]