Western Australian Current Regulations

RACING AND WAGERING WESTERN AUSTRALIA REGULATIONS 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Citation  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Terms used

   PART 2 -- Licensing of directors  

   4.      Notifications by RWWA to Commission  
   5.      Application for licence  
   6.      Form of application  
   7.      Investigation by police  
   8.      Commission may licence, or refuse to licence, director  
   9.      Duration of director’s licence  
   10.     Renewal of licence  
   11.     Further investigation

   PART 3 -- Licensing of RWWA key employees  

   12.     RWWA key employees taken to hold provisional licence  
   13.     Application for employee’s licence  
   14.     Investigation by police  
   15.     Commission may licence, or refuse to licence, employee  
   16.     Person may reapply for licence  
   17.     RWWA must not employ person who has been refused employee’s licence  
   18.     Duration of employee’s licence  
   19.     Disciplinary action  
   20.     Surrender of licence  
   21.     Notification of termination of employment  
   22.     Further investigation

   PART 4 -- Offences  

   23.     Offence relating to misleading information  
   24.     Notification of conviction  
   24A.    Offences relating to making and accepting wagers

   PART 5 -- Fees, taxes and other amounts payable by RWWA  

   25.     Section 53 fee

   PART 6 -- General conditions relating to wagers made at or through totalisator agencies  

   27.     Persons excluded from totalisator agencies  
   28.     Person making wager bound by these regulations, the rules of wagering and instructions  
   29.     Wagers accepted subject to the rules and these regulations  
   30.      All wagers to be 50 cents or multiples of 50 cents  
   31.     Dividend as declared  
   32.     Wagers may be refused  
   33.     Only authorised wagers to be accepted  
   34.     Hours for opening  
   35.     Wagers may be made by various methods  
   36.     Wagers to be properly marked  
   37.     RWWA may decide particulars of wagers  
   38.     Tickets to be properly marked  
   39.     RWWA to exhibit notices  
   40.     Correction of errors and omissions, and the giving of certain refunds  
   41.     Time for payment of dividends or refunds for cash wagers  
   42.     Presentation of tickets or claims  
   43.     When refunds of wagers are payable

   PART 7 -- General conditions related to wagers received and transmitted by racing club to RWWA  

   44.     Authorised racing club may transmit wagers  
   45.     Person making wager bound by these regulations and rules of wagering  
   46.     Only authorised wagering to be accepted  
   47.     Wagers transmitted by racing club to be registered on RWWA’s totalisator  
   48.     Apportionment of profit or loss  
   49.     References to pool conducted by RWWA

   PART 8 -- Wagering accounts  

   50.     Procedure for establishing wagering account  
   51.     Procedure for keeping, maintaining, increasing or renewing a wagering account  
   52.     Recording of wagers against a wagering account  
   53.     Crediting of dividends against a wagering account  
   54.     Wagering accounts to be disposed of in accordance with instructions  
   55.     General conditions applicable to wagering accounts  
   56.     General conditions on statements of account  
   57.     General provisions relating to wagers made by post  
   58.     Crediting and payment of dividends and refunds on wagering accounts and wagers made by post  
   58A.    Refunds to wagering accounts following scratchings  
   59.     Wagers by telephone or other electronic means  
   60.     Errors in wagers by telephone or other electronic means

   PART 9 -- General provisions on wagering  

   61.     Closing time for acceptance of wagers  
   62.     Totalisator pools -- generally  
   63.     Communication failure where a combined totalisator pool scheme is conducted

   PART 10 -- Sporting events  

   64.     RWWA may specify aspects of sporting events  
   65.     General conditions relating to conduct of totalisator pools  
   66.     General conditions relating to wagering on games and pools of games

   PART 11 -- Totalisator agencies  

   67.     Notice of intention to establish long term totalisator agency (s. 52(2))  
           68. Notice of intention to establish temporary totalisator agency (s. 52(2))  
           69. Information on totalisator agencies  
   70.     Direction to close or not to establish totalisator agency (s. 52(3))

   PART 12 -- Consultation  

   71.     Consultation (s. 82)

   PART 13 -- Disciplinary action -- Racing  

   72.     Warning off  
   73.     Failure to comply with a warning off
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