Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1962 (WA)

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TOTALISATOR AGENCY BOARD

BETTING (No. 2).

11 Elizabeth IL, No. XXXIX.

No. 39 of 1962.

AN ACT to amend the Totalisator Agency Board

Betting Act, 1960-1961.

[Assented to 29th October, 1962.]

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 Short titte citation.

Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act (No. 2) and	,
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(2) In this Act the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960-1961, is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Totalisator Agency Board

Betting Act, 1960-1962.

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Section twenty-six of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "meeting" in line five, the passage, "depreciation charges, the cost of improvements, repairs, maintenance, equip- ment, furniture, fixtures and fittings for or in respect of any land, buildings or premises purchased or taken on lease or license by the Board under section seventeen of this Act,".

'mended. 2.

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Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of section thirty-three of the principal Act is amended by deleting the passage, ", before the beginning of the race meeting at which the horse race is to be held," in lines one, two and three.

amended. 3.

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amended. 4. Section forty-five of the principal Act is

amended

(a)

by adding after the word, "bookmaker" in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the words, "or acts as a bookmaker";

(b)

by substituting for the passage commenc- ing with the word, "Penalty" in line eight of the section and ending with the word, "months" where secondly occurring in line ten of the section, the passage, "Penalty: For a first offence a fine not less than two hundred and fifty pounds nor exceeding five hundred pounds or imprisonment for two months, but where the offence is the latter of the two offences constituted by this subsection the penalty for a first offence in respect of that latter offence is a fine not less than fifty pounds nor exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds or imprison- ment for one month; for a second offence imprisonment for not less than three

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months nor more than six months; for a third or any subsequent offence imprison- ment for not less than six months nor more than twelve months"; and

(c) by adding the following subsection:

(3) In this section the term "bets" includes negotiating bets, receiving or paying money in connection with bets and settling bets on or in connection with the result of any horse race.

5. Section forty-six of the principal Act is

amended la4e,nded.

(a)

by substituting for the words, "fifty pounds" in line six of the section, the passage, "a fine not less than two hundred and fifty pounds nor exceeding five hundred pounds or imprisonment for two months, but if the person who commits the offence is not a bookmaker the penalty for a first offence is a fine not less than fifty pounds nor exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds or imprisonment for one month"; and

(b)

by adding after the word, "a" in line one of paragraph (a) of subsection (2), the passage, "first,".

6. Section forty-nine of the principal Act is	S.49
amended.

amended by substituting for the passage commenc- ing with the word, "Penalty" in line eight of the section and ending with the word, "months" in line ten thereof, the following passage:

Penalty: For a first offence a fine not less than two hundred and fifty pounds nor exceed- ing five hundred pounds; for a second offence imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than six months; for a third or any subsequent offence imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than twelve months.

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=ended. 7. Section fifty-two of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by adding after the word, "section" in line two of paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the words, "forty-five or";
(b)	by substituting for the passage commenc- ing with the word, "Penalty" in line nine of the section and ending with the word, "pounds" in line ten thereof, the passage, "Penalty: For a first offence a fine not less than fifty pounds nor exceeding one hundred pounds; for any subsequent offence a fine not less than one hundred pounds nor exceeding two hundred pounds";
(c)	by adding after the word, "section" in line three of subsection (2), the words, "forty- five or"; and
(d)	by adding after the word, "section" in line three of paragraph (a) of subsection (3), the words, "forty-five or".