Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act 1973 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

TOTALISATOR AGENCY

BOARD BETTING.

No. 64 of 1973.

AN ACT to amend the Totalisator Agency Board

Betting Act, 1960-1972.

[Assented to 28th November, 1973.]

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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act, 1973.	and
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citation.

In this Act the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960-1972, is referred to as the principal	Reprinted as
approved for
reprint 9th
April, 1968
Act.	and
amended by
Acts Nos.
(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Totalisator Agency Board Betting	21 and 65
of 1970 and
46, 87 and
103 of 1972.
Act, 1960-1973.

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No. 64] Totalisator Agency Board [1973.

Betting.

Commence.

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 20

amended. 3. Section 20 of the principal Act is amended

(a) by deleting paragraph (ba) of subsection (1) and substituting the following para- graph

(ba) for novelty bets by way of wagering or gaming in respect of such races as are selected by the Board, being races conducted on race courses in the State or on such race courses outside the State as are prescribed, to be lodged with and received by or on behalf of the Board and placed by the Board in a totalisator pool conducted by it on those races in accordance with this Act; ; and

(b) by repealing and re-enacting subsection (5) as follows

(5) In this section "novelty bet" means a bet of the prescribed kind. .

Section 22

amended.	4. Subsection (1) of section 22 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word "horse" in line seven.
Section 28
amended.	5. Subsection (1) of section 28 of the principal Act is amended by adding after the words "total of the amounts" in paragraph (e), the passage "of commission retained by the Board in respect of bets referred to in paragraph (ba) of subsection (1) of section twenty of this Act and".