Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

RACING AND BETTING ACT - SECT 69

(1) The committee of a principal club or registered club may, by notice in writing signed by the secretary of the club and served on a person, require the person -

(a) to depart from; or

(b) to refrain from entering,

on a specified day or days, or generally while the notice is in force, a racing venue that is under its control or under the control of a club registered by it.

(2) Where a notice under subsection (1) is served on a person, the committee that issued it shall cause a copy of it to be forwarded or delivered to the Commission within 3 days after the service of the notice on the person.

(3) The Commission may, by notice in writing served on a person, require the person to refrain from entering, on a specified day, or generally while the notice is in force, a racing venue specified in the notice, or racing venues generally.

(4) Where a notice under subsection (3) is served on a person, the Commission shall cause a copy of it to be delivered to each club that conducts meetings at the racing venue specified in the notice or, if the notice relates to racing venues generally, to every club using a racing venue in the Territory.

(5) A notice under subsection (1) or (3) shall be served personally on the person to whom it is directed.

(6) A person served with a notice under this section who contravenes or fails to comply with the notice is guilty of an offence.

Penalty: For a first offence - $500.

For a subsequent offence - $1,000 or imprisonment for 3 months.

(7) A member of the Police Force may remove from a racing venue a person who has been served with a notice under this section and who fails, on service of the notice, to leave the racing venue, being a racing venue to which the notice relates.

(8) The production to a court of a copy of a notice under this section on which there is endorsed a memorandum stating the day, place and mode of service of the notice and purporting to be signed by the person by whom the notice was served, is prima facie evidence -

(a) of the notice and the serving of that notice;

(b) that the endorsement was signed by the person whose signature it purports to be; and

(c) that the statements contained in the endorsement are true.