New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TOTALIZATOR ACT 1997 - SECT 117A

117A Responsible conduct of totalizators, totalizator betting and other betting activities

(1) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to requiring or encouraging the adoption of responsible practices in the conduct of totalizators, totalizator betting and any other betting activities approved under section 13.

(2) In particular, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to--

(a) the standards to be observed for the conduct of gambling activities,

(b) the prohibition or restriction of the offering of inducements, or of inducements of a kind, specified by the regulations,

(c) the notices to be displayed with respect to the availability of counselling in respect of financial, social or other problems that may arise in connection with gambling,

(d) the inclusion on each betting ticket issued by or on behalf of a licensee of--

(i) a warning notice about gambling, and

(ii) the name and contact details of a gambling counselling service specified, or of a kind specified, by the regulations.

(3) It is the intention of Parliament that regulations under this section will be made as soon as practicable after the date of assent to the Gambling Legislation Amendment (Responsible Gambling) Act 1999 .