(1)  The Director may make rules, called Sports Betting Rules , for the purpose of further controlling and regulating betting by and with registered bookmakers on contingencies relating to approved sports events.

(2)  The Director, after complying with any enactment applying to their publication, may publish the Sports Betting Rules in such ways as the Director thinks fit, having regard to their purpose and likely users.

(3)  The Sports Betting Rules  –

(a) may be made so as to apply differently according to such factors as are specified in the rules; and

(b) may authorise any matter to be from time to time determined by betting supervisors or other racing officials or by reference to the decisions of sports officials; and

(c) may be named for the particular approved sports events in respect of which they are made; and

(d) may contain notes and examples; and

(e) may stipulate that such notes and examples, or any of them, form or do not form part of the rules.

(4)  The Sports Betting Rules are not to contain provisions that –

(a) provide for a contravention of the rules to be an offence; or

(b) are repugnant to regulations made under this Act.

(5)  The Sports Betting Rules are not –

(a) statutory rules; or

(b) subject to section 47(3)(c) , (10) or (11) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1931 ; or

(c) instruments of a legislative character for the purposes of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 .

(6)  All courts, judges and persons acting judicially are to –

(a) take judicial notice of the Sports Betting Rules as amended from time to time; and

(b) admit as evidence a copy of those rules, as amended from time to time, if the copy is certified as a true copy by the Director.