Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1972 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

TOTALISATOR AGENCY

BOARD BETTING (No. 2).

No. 87 of 1972.

AN ACT to amend the Totalisator Agency Board

Betting Act, 1960-1970.

[Assented to 20th November, 1972.]

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 (No. 2),

1972.

Reprinted as

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

Betting Act, 1960-1970, is referred to as the principal

reprint 9th

April, 1988

and

Act.

amended

by Acts Nos.

21 and 85 of

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act, 1960-1972.

Commence-

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

to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 3

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

(a)	by deleting the interpretation "horse race"; and
(b)	by adding after the interpretation "public place" the following interpretation

"race" means a galloping or trotting horse

race or a greyhound race; .

Section 20

amended. 4. Subsection (5) of section 20 of the principal

Act is repealed and re-enacted as follows

(5) In this section "double event bet" means a bet in which the backer nominates a combination of two horses or two greyhounds or nominates the same horse or the same greyhound on the chance that those horses or greyhounds, or that horse or greyhound will fill first places in two races selected by the Board in accordance with paragraph (ba) of subsection (1) of this section; and a "quinella bet" means a bet in which the backer nominates a combination of two horses or two greyhounds on the chance that those horses or greyhounds will fill the first and second places in a race selected by the Board in accordance with paragraph (ba) of subsection (1) of this section.

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5. Section 24 of the principal Act is repealed and Section 24	repealed and
re-enacted.

re-enacted as follows-

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of off course

24. Where the amount of any bet is received by the Board as agent for a racing club, the

bets to

belong to

Board.

Board shall deduct therefrom by way of com- mission such portion of that amount as equals

(a)	except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection—fifteen per centum thereof;
(b)	where the totalisator conducted by or on behalf of the racing club is con- ducted on the system whereby all winning bets for a win or a place are deducted before the totalisator commis- sion is deducted—twenty per centum of that amount in the case of a losing bet made for a win and twenty-five per centum of that amount in the case of a losing bet made for a place,

and any amount so deducted by the Board shall be deemed for all purposes to belong to the Board and to form part of the general funds of the Board. .

6. Subsection (1) of section 28 of the principal amended."

Act is amended

(a)	by substituting for the passage "Act," in the last line of paragraph (d), the passage "Act; and" ; and
(b)	by adding after paragraph (d) the following paragraph

(e) to the Greyhound Racing Control Board the total of the amounts of commission and duty received by the Board under section twenty-four of this Act and subsection (4) of section three of the Totalisator Duty Act, 1905, in respect of greyhound

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races after deducting all amounts of the kind referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this subsection applic- able to greyhound races, .

Section 57

amended.	7. Subsection (3) of section 57 of the principal Act is amended by adding after the passage "1946," in line six of paragraph (b), the passage "or rules having effect under Part III of the Greyhound Racing Control Act, 1972," .
Miscellaneous

a ed ents 8. The principal Act is amended by deleting the

word "horse" where it occurs

(a)	in line two of the interpretation "race course" in section 3;
(b)	in line one of the interpretation "race meeting" in section 3;
(c)	in line eight of the interpretation "totalisator" in section 3;
(d)	in line five of the interpretation "totalisator agency" in section 3;
(e)	in line six of paragraph (a) of section 17;
(f)	in line two of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 20;
(g)	in line five of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 20;
(h)	in line three and again in line eight of paragraph (ba) of subsection (1) of section 20;

(i)    in line two and again in line seven of para- graph (c) of subsection (1) of section 20;

(j)	in line four of subsection (4) of section 20;
(k)	in line four and again in line six of sub- section (1) of section 21;

(1) in line three of subsection (2) of section 21;

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(m) in line four of paragraph (a) of subsection

(2) of section 22;

(n) in line two and again in line six of para- graph (b) of subsection (2) of section 22;

(o) in line three of paragraph (a) of subsection

(4) of section 28;

(p) in line three of paragraph (a) of subsection

(5) of section 28;

(q) in line four of paragraph (b) of section 33; (r) in line five of paragraph (c) of section 33;

(s) in line four and again in line five of section

41;

(t) in line three of paragraph (b) of subsection

(1) of section 45;

(u) in line four of subsection (3) of section 45;

(v) in line seven of subsection (1) of section 48;

and

(w) in line two and again in line four of para- graph (d) of subsection (1) of section 57.