Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act 1966 (WA)

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TOTALISATOR AGENCY BOARD

BETTING.

No. 28 of 1966.

AN ACT to amend the Totalisator Agency Board

Betting Act, 1960-1963.

[Assented to 27th October, 1966.]

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 Totalisator and citation.

Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act, 1966.

(2) In this Act the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960-1963 is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960-1966.

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Commence-

(1) Sections one, two and five of this Act shall

be deemed to have come into operation on the first

day of August, nineteen hundred and sixty-six.

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ment.

(2) The remaining sections of this Act shall come

into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation.

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amended. 3.

Subsection (1) of section twenty of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "courses" being the last word in the subsection, the passage, "but with the prior approval of the racing club having the control and management of a race course, totalisator agencies may be situated on that race course for the purpose of bets being made and received or placed and dividends paid in respect of those bets as provided in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this subsection".

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amended. 4.

Paragraph 0) of subsection (2) of section twenty-two of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "made" being the last word in the paragraph, the words, "or in accordance with such percentage or amount more or less of the respective amounts of the dividends so declared as is prescribed".

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amended. 5. Section twenty-eight of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by repealing subsection (2) and re-enacting

it as follows

(2) The amount to be so paid to the Club by the Board from the balance of its funds so remaining as provided in sub- section (1) of this section shall be such amount as is equal to sixty per centum thereof. ;

(b) by repealing subsection (3) and re-enacting it as follows

(3) The amount to be so paid to the

Association by the Board from the

balance of its funds so remaining as

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provided hi subsection (1) of this section shall be such amount as is equal to forty per centum thereof. ;

(c)	by substituting for the subsection designa- tion, "(3)" in line two of subsection (4), the subsection designation, "(2)";
(d)	by substituting for the word, "fifteen" in line one of paragraph (a) of subsection (5), the word, "twenty"; and
(e)	by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection (5) and re-enacting it as follows

(b) with respect to eighty per centum thereof, share that percentage so that the Association receives sixty- two and a half per centum of that percentage and The Fremantle Trotting Club, seventeen and a half per centum of that percentage. .

6. Subsection (1) of section forty-five of the amended.

principal Act is amended

(a)	by substituting for the words, "two hundred and fifty pounds nor exceeding five hundred pounds", the words, "one thousand dollars nor exceeding two thousand dollars";
(b)	by substituting for the words, "fifty pounds nor exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds", the words, "two hundred dollars nor exceeding one thousand dollars"; and
(c)	by adding a subsection as follows

(4) A complaint for an offence against this section committed after the com- mencement of this subsection, may be made at any time within five years from the date the offence was committed. .

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amended. 7. Section forty-six of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by substituting for the words, "two hundred and fifty pounds nor exceeding five hundred pounds" where they occur in subsection (1), the words, "one thousand dollars nor exceeding two thousand dollars"; and
(b)	by substituting for the words, "fifty pounds nor exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds", where they occur in subsection (1), the words, "two hundred dollars nor exceeding one thousand dollars".

Various

amendments	8. The principal Act is amended by substituting
to principal

Act to accord	for each reference therein, except those contained
with
Decimal	in sections forty-five and forty-six of this Act, to
Currency
Act, 1985.	amounts of money, a reference to the corresponding amount of money in decimal currency calculated on the basis of the equivalents specified in subsection (4) of section eight of the Currency Act 1965 of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.