Race and Sports Bookmaking Act 2001

A person commits an offence if the person engages in sports bookmaking.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

Subsection (1) does not apply if the person—

is a sports bookmaker; or

is acting in the course of the person’s duties as a director, officer or employee of a sports bookmaker; or

is a sports bookmaker’s agent acting for the sports bookmaker who applied for their licence.

Note The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned in s (2) (see Criminal Code, s 58).

For subsection (1), a race bookmaker does not engage in sports bookmaking only because the race bookmaker receives or negotiates bets on, or in relation to, sports betting events that are races.