Duties of race club
64 Duties of race club
(1) A race club that holds race meetings must take reasonable steps to:
control, supervise, regulate and promote its race meetings; and
develop and implement policies for:
paragraph (a); and
the protection of the public interest; and
the welfare of animals used in the racing industry.
(2) A race club must ensure that no person offers or receives wagers at its racecourse without a licence authorising that conduct.
(3) A race club that holds race meetings must fix the areas where and the hours during which wagering licensees may conduct their business.
Nothing in this Act authorises a race club to impose:
(a) conditions on wagering licensees other than those conditions allowed under subsection (3); or
(b) a fee or charge for allowing a wagering licensee to conduct business on a racecourse under its control, unless the fee is authorised, in writing, by the Commission.
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