New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TOTALIZATOR ACT 1997 - SECT 84

84 Minor not to bet on totalizator

(1) A person who, while under the age of 18 years, makes a bet on a totalizator is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(2) A person is not to be convicted of an offence against this section unless it is proved that, when the bet was made, there was displayed in a conspicuous place on the premises at which the bet was made, a legible notice to the effect that it is an offence for a person under the age of 18 years to make a bet by means of the totalizator.

(3) A licensee is guilty of an offence if it conducts betting by means of a totalizator on premises that do not have such a notice affixed in a conspicuous place.

Maximum penalty (subsection (3)): 50 penalty units.