New South Wales Consolidated Acts

UNLAWFUL GAMBLING ACT 1998 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Savings and transitional provisions

(Section 58)

Part 1 - Preliminary

1 Savings and transitional regulations

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act and the following Acts:

Racing Legislation Amendment (Bookmakers) Act 2002

Totalizator Legislation Amendment (Inter-jurisdictional Processing of Bets) Act 2006

Wagering Legislation Amendment Act 2010

(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to this Act or a later date.

(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

Part 2 - Provisions consequent on enactment of this Act

2 Existing declarations of premises as gaming-houses

Any premises the subject of a declaration under section 28 or 32 of the Gaming and Betting Act 1912 , being a declaration in force immediately before the repeal of the provision concerned by this Act, are taken to be declared gambling premises for the purposes of this Act.

Part 3 - Provision consequent on enactment of Wagering Legislation Amendment Act 2010

3 Evidentiary provisions relating to declared betting events

In relation to proceedings for an offence that is alleged to have been committed before the substitution of section 49 by the Wagering Legislation Amendment Act 2010 , that section continues to apply as if it had not been substituted.