Totalizator (Amendment) Act 1920 (NSW)

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TOTALIZATOE (AMENDMENT)

ACT.

Act No. IG, 1920.

George V, An Act to amend the Totalizator Act, 1916, and

No. 16. the Totalizator (Amendment) Act, 1919 ; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 2nd December, 1920.]

T ^ E it enacted l)v tlie King’s iMost Excellent Majesty,

• J .3 by and witli llie advice and consent of the L('gis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South "Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the autbority of Ibc same, as follows :—

Short title	1 . This Act may be cited as the ‘'Totalizator (Amendment) Act, 1920,” and shall be read witli tlie Totalizator Act, 1916 (hereinafter called the Principal Act) as amended bv the Totalizator (Amendment) Act,
1919. ‘
Amendments

of Principal 2 . The Principal Act is amended as follows :—•

Act.	(1) Section two: Omit the words “ Colonial Secretary ” as inserted by subsection one of section two of the Totalizator (Amendment) Act, 1911), and insert in lieu thereof the words “ Colonial Treasureia”
Soc. 2,
Sec. 3.	(2) Section three ; In ])aragrapli one omit the word “ Governor ” and insert in lieu thereof the word “ Minister,” and add at the end of such ])aragrapb the words “ or may exempt any club from the use of the totalizator for such period or periods as be may deem necessary.”

‘ (3)

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(3) Section :— George V,

^ . . No. 16.

(a)	In subsection one omit the words “ten pery.̂̂ j, centum” and insert in lieu tliereof the M'ords “ twelve and one-lialf per centum.”
(b)	Omit subsection two, as inserted by subsec­ tion four ol' section two of the 'totalizator (Amendment) Act, 11)19, and insert in lieu tliereof the following new subsection :—

(2) Every such club sliall within fourteen days after the holding of any race meeting, if a club specified in Part 1 of the Schedule hereto, pay nine per centum, and if a club s])(‘cified in Part I I of such Schedule five and one-ball ])er centum of the amount so ]):iid into the totalizator to tin' Colonial 'freasurer, or some person appointi'd by him, to be paid by him into the 'Preasury and carried to the Consolidatcal llevcniie Fund. Any such amount may lie recoveri'd from such club as a Crown debt in any court of comi^etcnt jurisdiction.

(c) Omit subsection throe as amended by para­ graph (c) of subsection lour of section two of the 'fotalizator (Aniendincnt) Act, 1919, and tlie jiroviso to such subsection as amended by jiaragraph (d) of sulisection four of section two of the same Act.

(1) Section nine :— ec, 9.

(a)	In subsection one omit the second jiroviso as amended by paragrajih (a) of subsection live of section two of the 'fotalizator (Amendment) Act, 1919, and the third ])i'oviso as inserted by paragra})b (b) of the same subsection.
(b)	After subsection one insert the following new subsection :—-

(1a ) All unpaid fractions of a shilling and all dividends declared payable in respect of any race and unclaimed for a period of one month shall bo the property of such club.

‘ (5)

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George V, (5) After section nine insert tlic follonin^ new

No. 16. section;—

New section

after s. 9.	9a. (1) Every club using the totalizator shall (2) Where through error in calculation the amount of the dividend declared payable in respect of any race is—
dividends	establish a fund to he known as the “ Dividends
Adjustment
r und.	Adjustment Eund.” (a) less than ; or (It) greater tliau
the amount tvliich should have been so declared, the difference shall in the first case he credited to, and in the second case debited against, such fund :
Provided that if in the opinion of the Auditor-General such error was occasioned by the negligence of an agent or servant of the club (and the onus of proving to the satisfaction of the Auditor-General that it was not so occasioned shall lie upon the club), any loss caused or contributed to by such error shall he borne by the club.
(3) At the end of the first six months after the passing of the Totalizator (Amend­ ment) Act, 1920, and at the end of each succeeding six months thereafter the balance (if any) to the credit of such fund shall ho paid into the Consolidated Itevenue Eund.

ec, 10 (C) Section ten ;—

Subsection one as inserted by subsection six of

section two of the Totalizator (Amendment)

Act, 1919, is amended by inserting after the

word “ misused ” the Avords “ or he may recover a penalty not exceeding fifty 2)ounds in respect of each day of a race meeting at AA'hich the totalizator is mismanaged or mis­ used and which penalty is hereby prescribed.”

Tn subsection two omit the Avords “ ten jier

centum ” and insert in lieu thereof the

words tAvelve and one-half per centum.”

Sec. 17. (7) Section scA^enteen: Omit the words “ for the starting of such race.”

(8)

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(8 ) Tlic Schedule, as added b y paragraph (a) of George V,

subsection four of section two of the Totalizator No, 16.

(Amendment) Act, 1919 :— sdinduie.

(a)	In Part I omit the words “ and all clubs racing for the sake of profit to their shareholders.”
(b)	In Part II omit the words “ not racing for the sake of profit to their share- liolders.”