Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts4. Definitions
(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears -
approved means approved by the Commission.
approved telephone bookmaking system means a telephone system for bookmaking approved by the Commission.
area of jurisdiction , in relation to a principal club, means the part of the Territory in respect of which the principal club has jurisdiction as a principal club.
betting includes the action, behaviour, conduct or performance of a person who, whether on one or more than one occasion -
(a) makes or receives a bet or wager;
(b) pays, receives, negotiates or settles a bet or wager; or
(c) offers, or agrees or otherwise negotiates to bet or wager or to pay, receive or settle, a bet or wager,
for himself or on behalf of another person, but does not include betting under the Totalisator Licensing and Regulation Act .
betting inspector means a betting inspector appointed under section 22.
betting ticket means a betting ticket referred to in section 73.
bookmaker means a person who is a sports bookmaker, a registered bookmaker or a country bookmaker.
bookmaker's agent means a person authorized under this Act by the Commission to conduct the business of a bookmaker in the absence of that bookmaker.
bookmaking means the business of receiving or negotiating bets.
Chairperson means the Chairperson of the Commission.
club means a club registered under this Act as a race club, trotting club or greyhound club.
Commission means the Racing Commission established by this Act.
committee , in relation to a registered club, means the committee or other governing body for the time being of that club.
control body , in relation to -
(a) a race club, means a principal club; and
(b) a trotting club or greyhound club, means the Commission.
country bookmaker means a licensed or registered bookmaker who carries on his business as a bookmaker at a place which is not within 50 kilometres of either the Darwin General Post Office or the Alice Springs Post Office.
Court means a court of summary jurisdiction.
employee means a person engaged in the work of the Commission.
feature double means an investment by the nomination of 2 selections on the contingency that such selections shall take first place in 2 races at different race meetings.
greyhound club means a body or association of persons, corporate or unincorporated, that promotes, holds or controls, or is formed to promote, hold or control, greyhound meetings, and includes such a body or association that is not registered.
greyhound meeting means a meeting for the purpose of conducting greyhound races.
greyhound-racing includes a greyhound race and a greyhound meeting.
greyhound-racing ground means a place for the holding of greyhound meetings.
Greyhound Racing Rules means the rules for the time being governing and relating to the control of greyhound-racing made or adopted under this Act by the Commission and approved by the Minister, or continued in force by section 156.
horse-racing means the racing of galloping horses.
identity card , in relation to a totalizator inspector, means the identity card issued under section 120(2) to him in respect of his appointment as a totalizator inspector.
instrument of betting includes -
(a) a book, card, coin, document, list, money, paper, record, sheet, table, ticket or other writing;
(b) a mechanical, electrical, telephonic, telegraphic, electronic or other equipment or device;
(c) a film, microfilm or other photographic or holographic record;
(d) a tape, cassette, disc or other audio or visual recording or replaying device or equipment;
(e) a board, chart or screen; and
(f) any other form or means of recording information or data,
used or capable of being used in carrying on or in connection with betting.
investment , in relation to a totalizator, means the amount of money invested on a totalizator the disposal of which is directed or authorized under this Act.
key employee means a person licensed under section 103.
licence means a licence, and includes a renewal of a licence, granted under this Act.
licensed premises means premises in respect of which a licence is granted under section 90.
meeting includes a race meeting, trotting meeting, greyhound meeting and phantom meeting.
member means a member of the Commission appointed under section 7(1)(b).
money includes an instrument for the payment of money that may be negotiated by an ADI by an overdraft of such an instrument or coins, marketable securities, cheques and other orders, warrants, authorities or requests for the payment of money or an acknowledgement, note or other thing purporting or intending to entitle the bearer or another person to money or money's worth.
net pool , in relation to a totalizator, means that part of moneys invested on a totalizator that is available to be paid out by way of dividends.
non-proprietary club means a club the constitution of which -
(a) provides for the application of profits and other income of the club to the promotion of its objects; and
(b) prohibits the payment of dividends to the members of the club.
occupier , in relation to a place, includes the owner or keeper at a material time of the place, a person having at a material time the care, management, supervision or control of the place or in any manner conducting the business, if any, of the place and a person procured or employed by or acting for or on behalf of any such person.
official starting price means the odds declared by the club conducting a meeting to be the official starting price in relation to a runner.
operator , in relation to a totalizator, means a registered club, the agent of such a club or other authorized person that or who operates a totalizator.
owner , in relation to a place, includes a lessee and sub-lessee.
paceway means a place for the holding of trotting meetings.
permit means a permit, and includes the renewal of a permit, granted under this Act.
phantom meeting means a meeting authorized under this Act to be held at which no race is actually conducted or is required to be conducted.
place includes -
(a) land;
(b) a building, structure or erection of any kind, whether wholly or partly constructed or erected or in the course of construction or erection;
(c) a room in a building, structure or erection;
(d) a road, street, thoroughfare, alley or right of way;
(e) a racecourse, paceway, greyhound racing ground, athletic ground or other ground;
(f) a vehicle, vessel or aircraft; and
(g) a tent, caravan, trailer or other conveyance.
primary totalizator means a totalizator designated by the Commission as a primary totalizator and to which details of investments on any other totalizator are transmitted or at which the net pools of more than one totalizator are amalgamated.
principal club means a club prescribed as a principal club for the purposes of this Act and the Rules of Racing or appointed as a principal club under section 42(2)(a) by the Minister, and includes the Commission, when so appointed.
property includes real and personal property, whether situated in the Territory or elsewhere, and any right thereto or estate or interest therein and a debt, thing in action and any other right or interest in property.
public place includes -
(a) a public place within the meaning of the Summary Offences Act ;
(b) a place regularly used by an association within the meaning of the Associations Act ; and
(c) licensed premises within the meaning of the Liquor Act .
race means a contest, event or contingency in which 2 or more runners compete, one against the other or others, in a test of speed over a designated distance or period or for the purpose of providing a contingency on which bets may be made, but does not include a contest, event or contingency in which skills other than speed alone are tested or a trial.
race club means a body or association of persons, corporate or unincorporated, that promotes, holds or controls, or is formed to promote, hold or control, race meetings.
racecourse means a place for the holding of race meetings.
race meeting means a meeting for the purpose of conducting horse races.
racing includes a horse race and a race meeting.
racing venue means a racecourse, paceway or greyhound racing ground, whether in the Territory or elsewhere, at which a meeting may lawfully be held.
refund means an investment made on a totalizator, or a bet made with a bookmaker, that is required for any reason to be refunded.
registered means -
(a) when used in relation to a club, registered -
(i) by a principal club as a race club; or
(ii) by the Commission as a trotting club or a greyhound club; or
(b) when used in relation to a horse or greyhound, registered in accordance with -
(i) the Rules of Racing;
(ii) the Rules of Trotting; or
(iii) the Greyhound Racing Rules,
as the case may be.
registered bookmaker means a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 102.
remote area licence means a licence granted under section 91.
remote clerk means a key employee authorized under section 104.
Rules includes the Rules of Racing, Rules of Trotting and Greyhound Racing Rules .
Rules of Racing means the rules for the time being governing and relating to horse-racing under the control of principal clubs, being in relation to each principal club an amalgamation of the Australian Rules of Racing as adopted by that club and the local rules of racing of that club.
Rules of Trotting means the rules for the time being governing and relating to the control of trotting made or adopted under this Act by the Commission and approved by the Minister, or continued in force by section 156.
runner means a horse or greyhound that is a final acceptor in a race.
special licence means a special licence granted under section 82(2).
special permit means a special permit granted under section 82(2).
sporting event means an event or contingency, whether or not of a sporting nature, declared by the Commission under subsection (2) to be a sporting event.
sports bookmaker means a person to whom a licence is granted under section 90 and, where the person is a corporation, includes the nominee whose name is endorsed on the licence document as required by section 90(5A).
this Act includes the Regulations and Rules made under this Act, or continued in force by section 156.
totalizator means a scheme or system by means of which investments are accepted and aggregated and dividends are calculated, declared and paid on a proportional basis dependent upon the result of a race or series of races in accordance with prescribed formulae and includes a device, instrument, machine, computer or other thing used to effect the aggregation and distribution of investments and the place where such a scheme is operated, but does not include a totalisator that is established or operated in the Territory under a licence granted under the Totalisator Licensing and Regulation Act .
totalizator inspector means an inspector appointed under section 120.
totalizator pool means the amount calculated by subtracting from the aggregate of investments on a class of totalizator refunds and prescribed commission.
trial means an event held for the purpose of testing or training horses or greyhounds for which no prize-money, trophy or other reward, gratuity or privilege of more than a nominal value is offered.
trotting includes trotting racing, pacing and a trotting meeting.
trotting club means a body or association of persons, corporate or unincorporated, that promotes, holds or controls, or is formed to promote, hold or control, a trotting meeting.
trotting meeting means a meeting for the purpose of conducting trotting races.
unit of investment , in relation to a totalizator, means the prescribed basic monetary unit that may be invested on the totalizator and on which a dividend is declared and paid.
unlawful betting means betting otherwise than in accordance with this Act or the Totalisator Licensing and Regulation Act .
valuable thing includes a benefit or a promise, oral or in writing, conditional or absolute, to pay or give a valuable thing.
(2) For the purposes of the definition of sporting event in subsection (1), the Commission may declare an event or contingency to be a sporting event.