Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Governor may
make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by
this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed,
for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1), regulations may be made under this section in respect of
—
(a) the
licensing of RWWA key employees as defined in section 24, and the conditions
and fees applicable to the licensing; and
(b) the
disciplinary actions that the Commission may take in relation to a person
licensed as a RWWA key employee, which may include —
(i)
the service of a letter of censure on the employee; or
(ii)
the imposition of a fine not exceeding $50 000; or
(iii)
the cancellation or suspension of the licence held by the
employee,
or any combination of
those actions; and
(c) the
application for, and the issue, refusal, suspension or cancellation of,
licences for racecourses, race meetings, races and training and trial tracks
under section 39; and
(d) the
application for, and the issue, refusal, suspension or cancellation of, the
registration of a racing club under section 40; and
(e) the
application for, and the issue, refusal, suspension or cancellation of, the
registration of a horse or greyhound under section 41; and
(f) the
application for, and the issue, refusal, suspension or cancellation of a
licence under section 42; and
(g) the
establishment of totalisator agencies and the role of the Commission under
section 52; and
(h)
requirements for racing clubs which have received a loan or grant under
section 92 to permit RWWA, or any director or other person authorised for the
purpose by RWWA, to inspect —
(i)
any facilities or works in respect of which such a loan
or grant was made; and
(ii)
any books of account of such a racing club;
and
(i)
making provision for giving effect to specified national
policies (that is, policies or agreements to which the State and at least 1
other Australian jurisdiction are parties), to the extent to which the
policies relate to the purposes of this Act.
(3) Any regulations
made under this section or the Betting Control Act 1954 , in relation to a
totalisator on a racecourse, so far as they are applicable, apply in relation
to wagers made through RWWA on that totalisator as if the wagers were made
directly into the totalisator.
(4) Regulations made
under this section may modify a regulation referred to in subsection (3) or a
rule referred to in section 120 to such extent as is necessary to make it
applicable in relation to wagers made through RWWA and transmitted to a
totalisator.
[Section 121 amended: No. 53 of 2024 s. 76.]