Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act 1970 (WA)

No. 65.] Totalisator Agency Board Betting. [1970.

TOTALISATOR AGENCY

BOARD BETTING.

No. 65 of 1970.

AN ACT to amend the Totalisator Agency Board

Betting Act, 1960-1970.

[Assented to 17th November, 1970.]

BE 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

and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Totalisator

Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act, 1970.

Reprinted

as approved	(2)	In this Act the Totalisator Agency Board
for reprint.

9th April,	Betting Act, 1960-1970, is referred to as the principal
1968, as
amended	Act.
by Act
No. 21 of
1970.	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960-1970.

1970.] Totalisator Agency Board Betting. [No. 65.

2. Section 33 of the principal Act is amended— Amendment to s. 33.

(a)

by adding after the word "employees" in ggilisgr line two of paragraph (a), the words co r rot:rtdt ugh

any employee of an agent of the Board";

and

(b)

by adding after the word "employees" in line two of paragraph (b), the words "or any employee of an agent of the Board".

3. Section 42 of the principal Act is amended— Amendment to s. 42.

(a) by adding after the word "Board" in line (Prboellitiinitgion

two the words "or employee of an agent of mwiitillors,

intoxicated

the Board"; and	persons,
etc.)

(b) by substituting for the word "twenty-one" in paragraph (d) the word "eighteen".

S. 51A

4. The principal Act is amended by adding after added.

section 51 a section as follows-

Certain

51A. (1) A member of the Police Force who, and a person who, at the request of such a	persons not
accomplices evidence of
member, makes a bet is deemed not to be an	accomplices.
accomplice and is not guilty of an offence where a complaint, arising out of the making of that bet, is made against another person; and the evidence of the member of the Police Force or the person who made the bet at his request is deemed, on the hearing of the complaint, not to be the evidence of an accomplice.
(2) In any proceedings against a person for an offence against this Act, an act, admission or statement of an employee or agent of that person is admissible in evidence whether it is done, made or given in the presence of that person or not.

Nothing in this section shall limit the

effect of any provision of section fifty or fifty-

one of this Act. .

(3)