Totalizator Act 1879 (SA)

,4NNO QUADRAGESIMO SECUNDO ET QUADRAGESIMO

TEETIO

VICTORIAE REGINB.

A.D. 1879.

No, 161.

An Act to remedy some of the evils arising from Betting

at Raccs.

[ A s s n ~ t d to, zjth Octohw, 1879.1

4REAS great evils have resulted from rash and indis- Preamble.

W"" often tempted by reason of the uncertainty of losing, and the chance criminate betting at races, and joung nlen and others are

of winning, to make bets which, if lost, are wholly beyond their means to pay, and in order to pay the same resort to criminal means

. of obtaining money: And whereas the use of the totalizator would

tend to diminish betting by giving young men and others a pecuniary interest in races without the evils incident to indis- criminate betting-Be it therefore Xnacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

other machine or instrument of a likc nature, and conducted upon the same principles, shall, when used under the auspices of, and with the permission of, any duly recognised racing club, upon any public racecourse, be exemptcd from the provisions of the Lottery and Gaming Act, 1875, and no house, office, room, or place, on any race- course used for the purposes aforesaid, shall be held to be within the provisions

1, From and after the passing of this Act, the instrument or con- Totalizator may he

trivance for wagering or betting, known as the totalizator, or any used oh eonditione.

provisions of the said Act: Provided tha.t not more than one such

totalizator, machine, or instrument shall be authorised or usecl upon

such racecourse at any one time.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent

to this Bill.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

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Adelaide: By authority, E. SYILLPK, Acting Government