Lotteries (Control) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1983 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

LOTTERIES (CONTROL)

(No. 2).

No. 43 of 1983.

AN ACT to amend the Lotteries (Control) Act

1954-1982.

[Assented to 5 December 1983.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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 Lotteries and citation.

(Control) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1983.

Reprinted

(2) In this Act the Lotteries (Control) Act	as approved
19 April 1979

1954-1982 is referred to as the principal Act.

and

amended by

Acts Nos. 103

of 1981. and

24 and 72

of 1982.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Lotteries (Control) Act

1954-1983.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into

operation on 1 July 1983.

Section 9

amended. 3. Section 9 of the principal Act is amended

(a) by repealing subsection (la) and substituting the following subsections-

ff (la) The Commission shall at such

intervals not exceeding one year as the Treasurer directs pay into and place to the credit of the fund kept at the Treasury and known as the Hospital Fund 20 per cent of all moneys received by the Commission in respect of standard lotteries conducted by it under this Act.

(laa) The Commission shall at such intervals not exceeding one year as the Treasurer directs pay into and place to the credit of an account at the Treasury to be called the Sports- Culture Instant Lottery Account (in this section called the Account) such percentage as is prescribed of all moneys received by the Commission in respect of instant lotteries conducted by it under this Act up to a maximum amount in any financial year of $6 000 000. ";

(b) in subsection (lb), by deleting "(la)" and substituting the following-

" (laa) ";

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(c) by inserting after subsection (1c) the following subsection

(1d) The balance remaining in respect of instant lotteries in a financial year after deduction of the expenses referred to in paragraph (e) of subsection (1), payment of the prize moneys and the moneys required to be paid into the Account shall at such intervals as the Treasurer directs, be paid to and placed to the credit of the fund kept at the Treasury known as the Hospital Fund. "; and

(d) in subsection (2), by deleting "referred to in subsection (la) (a)" and substituting the following-

" kept at the Treasury known as the Hospital Fund ".