New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TOTALIZATOR ACT 1997 - SECT 89

89 Restrictions on transmission of bets

(1) An officer, agent or employee of a racing club must not accept or act on a request, instruction or direction relating to investments on a totalizator, whether received on a racecourse or elsewhere, if the request, instruction or direction is made or given by telephone or by any kind of electronically transmitted message. If this subsection is contravened, the racing club concerned is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) This section does not prevent such a request, instruction or direction from being made or given by telephone or by any kind of electronically transmitted message if the request, instruction or direction is made in a manner approved by the Minister.

(3) This section does not apply to transmissions by or on behalf of a racing club for the purposes of conducting a totalizator in accordance with this Act.