New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TOTALIZATOR ACT 1997 - SECT 17

17 Requirements for conduct of on-course totalizators by racing clubs

(1) A totalizator established and conducted pursuant to this Act by a racing club on a racecourse on which no authorised betting auditorium is established and conducted may be used only--

(a) on days on which race meetings are scheduled to be held on the racecourse, and

(b) in connection with races scheduled to be run on any such day or on any subsequent day on the racecourse or on any other racecourse within or outside New South Wales.

(2) Any totalizator established and conducted pursuant to this Act by a racing club on a racecourse on which an authorised betting auditorium is established and conducted may be used in connection with any races to be run on that racecourse or on any other racecourse within or outside New South Wales.

(3) If both TAB and a racing club are conducting a totalizator in respect of the same event or contingency, all bets made with the racing club in respect of the event or contingency--

(a) are to be received by the racing club as agent for TAB, and

(b) are to be paid by the racing club into the totalizator conducted by TAB and are to form part of the money invested in that totalizator on the event or contingency.

(4) It is a condition of a licence under this Act held by a racing club or by TAB that the licensee is to give effect to the requirements of subsection (3) in respect of bets made with the racing club.

Note : Because the bets referred to in subsection (3) are treated as bets received by TAB the commission that can be deducted from the bets is deducted by TAB and not by the racing club. TAB pays the betting tax on the commission deducted and the racing club is not liable for that tax.