Totalisator Duty Act Amendment Act 1958 (WA)

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TOTALISATOR DUTY.

7° Elizabeth II., No. =rt.

No. 28 of 1958.

AN ACT to amend the Totalisator Duty Act,

1905-1951.

[Assented to 19th November, 1958.]

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:—

=Atm 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Totalisator

Duty Act Amendment Act, 1958.

(2) In this Act the Totalisator Duty Act, 1905-

1951, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Totalisator Duty Act, 1905-1958.

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2. Section three of the principal Act is amended amended.

by adding after subsection (la), the following sub-	Subs. (1a)Was added
section	by 0.4 of No.
21 of 1951.

(lb) On and after the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, the payments payable under subsection (1) of this section to the Commissioner of Stamps shall be calculated at the rate of three and one-half per centum instead of the rate of seven and one-half per centum mentioned in that sub- section, but in respect only of so much of the amount

of the gross takings mentioned in para-

graph (a) of that subsection;

of the net takings mentioned in paragraph

(b) of that subsection; and

of the unpaid dividends mentioned in para-

graph (c) of that subsection;

as the Commissioner of Stamps is satisfied was taken, or, as the case may be, is unpaid, by the totalisator on wagering transactions known as "jack pots" or as "quinellas" or as "doubles".

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

by adding after the word, "thereof" being the last word in paragraph (c) of subsection (1), the passage-

; and

(d) How much, if any,

(i)    of that gross amount was taken;

(ii)    of that portion of the net takings was taken; and

(iii)    of those dividends is unpaid;

by the totalisator on wagering transactions known as "jack pots" or as "quinellas" or as "doubles".

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amended. 4. Section seven of the principal Act is amended

(a) by adding after the word, "thereof" being the last word in paragraph (d) of subsec- tion (1) the following paragraph-

(da) how much, if any,

(i)  of that gross amount was taken;

(ii)  of that portion of the net takings was taken; and

(iii)    of those dividends is unpaid;

by the totalisator on wagering trans- actions known as "jack pots" or as "quinellas" or as "doubles", and par- ticulars of those transactions;

(b)	by deleting the word, "of" being the first word in paragraph (e) of subsection (1); and
(c)	of subsection (2), the words, "or the next succeeding".

by adding after the word, "this" in line one