New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RACING ADMINISTRATION ACT 1998 - SECT 26D

26D State bookmakers authority

(1) A person may make an application to the Committee in or to the effect of the form approved by the Committee for a State bookmakers authority.

(3) The Committee has power to grant or refuse any application for a State bookmakers authority.

(4) Without limiting the grounds on which an application may be refused, the Committee may refuse to issue a State bookmakers authority if it is satisfied:

(c) that a bookmaker has been convicted of an offence under this Act or the Unlawful Gambling Act 1998 , or

(d) in the case of an application by a bookmaker that is a company, that a director, shareholder or person concerned in the management of the company has, as an individual, been convicted of an offence as referred to in paragraph (c), or

(e) in the case of an application by an individual bookmaker, that the individual was a director, shareholder or person concerned in the management of a company bookmaker at a time when the company committed an offence for which it was convicted as referred to in paragraph (c).

(5) If the Committee grants any application, the Committee must issue a State bookmakers authority to the applicant.

(6) A bookmakers tax receipt issued under the Bookmakers (Taxation) Act 1917 before its repeal is taken to be a State bookmakers authority issued under this section.