New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RACING ADMINISTRATION ACT 1998 - SECT 26B

26B Authority to act for bookmaker during absence

(1) A controlling body that issued a licence, certificate of registration or permit authorising a person to carry on business as a bookmaker may, on application made by the person:

(a) declare any period during which the bookmaker is or is to be absent to be an approved period, and

(b) issue a written authority to a person nominated by the bookmaker to carry on the business of the bookmaker during the approved period.

(2) Any person carrying on the business of a bookmaker pursuant to any authority issued under subsection (1) is, for the purposes of this or any other Act, taken to be the bookmaker.

(3) Any person carrying on the business of a bookmaker pursuant to any authority issued under subsection (1) must produce the authority to any police officer, or any inspector appointed under section 26I, who requests to see it.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(4) The Director-General of the Department of Gaming and Racing, may, by instrument in writing served on a controlling body, direct it not to issue an authority under subsection (1) to any person named in the instrument. The Director-General may revoke or vary any such direction by an instrument in writing.

(5) Any authority issued under subsection (1) to a person named in an instrument in force under subsection (4), whether issued before or after the instrument was served on the body concerned, has no effect.

(6) A controlling body may authorise an association of racing clubs to grant an approval under this section on its behalf.

(7) Section 26A does not apply to a person to whom an authority has been issued under subsection (1).