Totalisator Agency Board (Betting) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2002 (WA)

20 May 2003 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1795

RACING, GAMING AND LIQUOR

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Totalisator Agency Board Betting Act 1960

Totalisator Agency Board (Betting) Amendment

Regulations (No. 3) 2002

Made by the deputy of the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Totalisator Agency Board
(Betting) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2002.

(No. 2) 2002 are published.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation —

(a)	on the day of their publication in the Gazette — if that day is after the day on which the Totalisator Agency Board (Betting) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2002 are published; or
(b)	immediately after the Totalisator Agency Board (Betting) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2002 if the day of publication of these regulations is before, or on the same day as, the day on which the Totalisator Agency Board (Betting) Amendment Regulations

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3.           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 9 August 2002 see 2001 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p.	337, and
Gazette 22 March 2002.]

4.            Regulation 19 amended

After regulation 19(1) the following subregulations are inserted -

"

(la) Subject to regulation 4 1(2) and 44A(2), where a runner

(or one of the runners) on which a bet other than -

(a) a favourite numbers bet; or

(b) a sweepstakes bet,

has been placed with the TAB is scratched before the
start of its race or declared a non-starter, a person who
placed a bet on (or involving) that runner with the TAB
is entitled to a refund of that bet, subject to

subregulation (lb).

(lb) Where a refund is payable under subregulation (la) due

to a scratching, and the person entitled to the refund
wishes to obtain that refund prior to the running of the

race, that person may, on request, obtain a refund of—

(a)	the bet; or
(b)	if the bet is one of 2 or more bets recorded on the same ticket, and none of the bets have been decided - the total value of that ticket,

prior to the running of the race, if the request is made before the close of betting for each and every race to

which the ticket relates.

5.            Regulation 40 amended

Regulation 40(4) is amended by deleting paragraph (a) and the
"or" following that paragraph.

6.            Regulation 44A amended

Regulation 44A(2) is amended after "fails to start," by inserting -

"

and that person has not obtained a refund of the amount

of that bet in accordance with regulation 19(1 a),

By Command of the deputy of the Governor,

ROD SPENCER, Clerk of the Executive Council.