Laying totalizator odds or dealing in totalizator tickets an offence
88 Laying totalizator odds or dealing in totalizator tickets an offence
A person—
who makes or enters into a bet, or who offers to make or to enter into a bet, on the result of an event or contingency, by which the person agrees to pay to the other party to the bet, if the other party should win the bet, a sum of money the amount of which is dependent on the result of the working of a totalizator on the event or contingency, or
who (not being a person lawfully conducting or employed in the working of a totalizator) sells or offers for sale a ticket, card or thing entitling or purporting to entitle the purchaser or holder of it to an interest in the result of the working of the totalizator on an event or contingency, or
who purchases from a person (not being a person lawfully conducting or employed in the working of a totalizator) a ticket, card, or thing entitling or purporting to entitle the purchaser or holder of it to an interest in the result of the working of the totalizator on an event or contingency, or
makes or offers to make a contract or bargain of any kind to pay or receive money on an event or contingency determined or to be determined by the result of the working of the totalizator on an event or contingency,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
A person is not guilty of an offence under subsection (1)(a) if the person—
is a licensed bookmaker (within the meaning of the Unlawful Gambling Act 1998), and
is present at a licensed racecourse (within the meaning of that Act) whether or not the other party to the bet is also at the racecourse.
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