Totalisator Agency Board (Betting) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2001 (WA)

23 October 2001 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5635

(Betting) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2001.

RG301*

Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act 1960

Totalisator Agency Board (Betting) Amendment

Regulations (No. 2) 2001

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Totalisator Agency Board

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2.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Totalisator
Agency Board (Betting) Regulations 1988*.
[* Reprinted as at 20 August 1999.

For amendments to 27 August 2001, see 2000 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 353, and Gazette 3 April and 26 June 2001.]

3. Regulation amended

3 in the appropriate alphabetical position -

"

"scheduled starting time" of a race or sporting event

means the starting time of the race or sporting
event that has been determined by the relevant
racing club or body conducting the sporting event

and notified to the TAB;

4. Regulation amended

12 and inserting instead -

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post, telegram or other electronic means, ".

5.            Regulation 26 amended

Regulation 26(7) is amended by deleting "the commencement of".

6.            Regulation 28 replaced

Regulation 28 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted instead -

28.          Bets by telephone or other electronic means

(1)	Subject to these regulations, bets by telephone or other electronic means may be accepted by the TAB against a deposit account previously established with the TAB.
(2)	A depositor making a bet with or through the TAB by telephone shall use only the telephone numbers notified to the depositor by the TAB for that purpose.
(3)	Bets may be made by telephone or other electronic means up to the closing time as fixed by the TAB from time to time for the acceptance of bets for the race or sporting event concerned.
(4)	When making a bet by telephone or other electronic means against a deposit account the depositor shall provide -

(a) his or her account number and account name

and one or more of his or her codes, if required
by the TAB; and

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(b) such information to identify the bet to be made

(of the type set out in regulation 13), as is

required by the TAB.

(5)	The TAB shall read back or otherwise present the bet as recorded to the depositor and, subject to subregulation (7), the depositor is taken to have accepted the bet as recorded unless the depositor cancels or amends the bet at that time.
(6)	Subject to subregulation (7), once the depositor is taken to have accepted the bet, no amendment shall be made to it except with the approval of the TAB for the purpose of the correction of an error or omission.
(7)	A bet made on a race or sporting event with or through the TAB by telephone or other electronic means and against a deposit account in accordance with subregulation (1) may be amended or cancelled by the depositor if —

(a)	the bet is of $200 or less; and
(b)

the amendment or cancellation is made starting time of the race or sporting event.

7.            Regulation 29 amended

(1)	Regulation 29(1) is amended by inserting after "telephone" —
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or other electronic means ".

(2)	Regulation 29(2) is amended by deleting the words "telephone bet" and inserting instead —
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bet made by telephone or other electronic means

8. Part 7 inserted

After Part 6 the following Part is inserted —

Part 7 — Miscellaneous

96.          Further inspection powers

The Betting Control Board, and persons authorised by it, and the Commissioner of State Revenue may, when carrying out an inspection under section 36(1) of the Act, make and retain copies of the whole or a part of a document.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.