Betting Control Regulations 1978

In this regulation —

cheating or otherwise employing any wrongful practice, trick, scheme or device;

making a statement that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is false or misleading in a material particular;

using a forged document;

using a false pretence.

A domestic betting operator is not required to accept a bet, on a race charged against a betting account, under regulation 105A or 105B, if any of the following apply —

the usual residential address of the person who established the betting account is outside Australia;

the person who established the betting account is —

not the beneficial owner of the bet; or

another domestic betting operator; or

an employee of another domestic betting operator; or

a relative (as defined in section 7(1) of the Act) of an employee of another domestic betting operator; or

in breach of a term or condition of the betting account;

the person who established the betting account has notified the domestic betting operator that the person has voluntarily excluded themselves from betting with the domestic betting operator;

the betting account does not have a balance sufficient to pay the amount of the bet;

the domestic betting operator has closed another betting account of the person who established the betting account because —

the person was warned off or disqualified under the RWWA Act; or

the person engaged in fraudulent behaviour;

the bet is —

made by means of a betting exchange; or

a bet back as defined in section 14A(1) of the Act; or

an internet bet placed using a proxy server;

the scheduled starting time of the 1^st race of the race meeting at which the race is run is before 4 pm and the bet is placed —

before 9 am on the day of the race; or

on any day before the day of the race;

the scheduled starting time of the 1^st race of the race meeting at which the race is run is at or after 4 pm and the bet is placed —

before 2 pm on the day of the race; or

on any day before the day of the race;

the bet involves the selection of a series of propositions in relation to races and the final dividend is —

reliant on all propositions being correctly selected; and

determined by multiplying together the odds of each selection;

the bet is 1 of a number of bets that are all identical or similar and the bets have been placed in a systematic manner from the same internet protocol address;

a free component (as defined in the Betting Tax Assessment Act 2018 section 4) is used to place all or part of the bet;

the domestic betting operator has accepted another bet on the race in respect of the same runner that the bet was placed on and if the other bet and the bet had formed 1 bet the domestic betting operator would not have been required, under regulation 105A or 105B, to accept the bet.