New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RACING ADMINISTRATION ACT 1998 - SECT 16

16 Authority to conduct telephone or electronic betting

(1) The Minister may, in writing, authorise a licensed bookmaker to accept or make bets:

(a) by telephone, or

(b) electronically by means of the Internet, subscription TV or such other on-line communications systems as may be approved by the Minister,

while the bookmaker is at a licensed racecourse at a time when it is lawful for betting to take place at the racecourse.

(2) An application for an authority under this section is to be made to the Minister in the manner approved by the Minister.

(3) The reasonable costs incurred by the Minister in determining an application for an authority under this section, including testing of the equipment to be used by the applicant, are payable to the Minister by the applicant unless the Minister determines otherwise in a particular case.

(4) The Minister may require part or full payment in advance of the amount the Minister determines is payable by the applicant and may refuse to deal with the application until the required payment is made.

(5) The Minister may impose conditions that a licensed bookmaker who holds an authority under this section must comply with in accepting, making, dealing with and giving effect to bets to which the authority relates.

(6) Such fees as are fixed by order of the Minister published in the Gazette are payable by a licensed bookmaker:

(a) for the issue of an authority under this section, and

(b) for each period of 12 months during which the authority is in force.

(7) An order may fix a fee despite the fact that the fee may comprise a tax.

(8) The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Committee, cancel, or suspend for a period specified in the recommendation, the authority held by a licensed bookmaker under this section if the bookmaker fails:

(a) to comply with a condition to which the authority is subject, or

(b) to pay a fee or amount payable by the bookmaker under this section.

(9) A bet accepted by telephone or electronically as authorised by this section is taken to have been made at the racecourse on which it is accepted.