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AUTHORISED BETTING OPERATIONS ACT 2000 - SECT 3

AUTHORISED BETTING OPERATIONS ACT 2000 - SECT 3

3—Interpretation

        (1)         In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

"advertising code of practice" means an advertising code of practice prescribed under the Gambling Administration Act 2019 ;

"agent's licence"—see section 34;

"approved contingency"—see section 4;

"approved licensing agreement"—see section 12;

"authorised betting operator" means—

            (a)         the holder of a licence under this Act; or

            (b)         an authorised interstate betting operator;

"authorised interstate betting operator"—see section 40A(3);

"betting exchange" means a facility, electronic or otherwise, designed to provide a mechanism through which—

            (a)         offers to make bets are regularly made and accepted; or

            (b)         offers or invitations to make bets are regularly made that are intended to result, or may reasonably be expected to result, directly or indirectly, in the acceptance of the offers or invitations,

but does not include a facility involved in the activities of a bookmaker or the conduct of totalisator betting;

"bookmaker's licence"—see section 34;

"cash facility" means—

            (a)         an automatic teller machine; or

            (b)         an EFTPOS facility; or

            (c)         any other facility, prescribed by regulation, that enables a person to gain access to his or her funds or to credit;

"child" means a person under the age of 18 years;

"close associates"—see section 5;

"Commissioner" has the same meaning as in the Gambling Administration Act 2019 ;

"compliance notice"—see section 69;

"comprehensive licence" means the comprehensive major betting operations licence granted under section 7(1);

"conduct betting operations"—a person conducts betting operations if the person conducts totalisator betting, acts as a bookmaker or conducts a betting exchange;

"contribution agreement"—see section 62E;

"designated person"—see section 20;

"domestic partner" means a person who is a domestic partner within the meaning of the Family Relationships Act 1975 , whether declared as such under that Act or not;

"executive officer" of a body corporate is—

            (a)         a secretary or public officer of the body corporate; or

            (b)         a person responsible for managing the body corporate's business or any aspect of its business;

"gambling administration guidelines" means the gambling administration guidelines issued by the Commissioner under the Gambling Administration Act 2019 ;

"greyhound race" or "greyhound racing" means a race or racing between greyhounds in competitive pursuit of a quarry or lure that is not a live animal;

"harness race" or "harness racing" means a pacing race or trotting race or pacing or trotting;

"horse race" or "horse racing" does not include a harness race or harness racing;

"integrity agreement"—see section 62E;

"interstate betting operator" means—

            (a)         a person who holds a prescribed interstate licence (including a licence that is suspended); or

            (b)         a statutory body established under the law of another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth for the purpose of conducting betting operations in that State or Territory;

"licensed bookmaker" means a person who is the holder of a bookmaker's licence;

"licensed racing club" means a racing club that is the holder of an on-course totalisator betting licence;

"limited licence" means a limited major betting operations licence granted under section 7(3);

"major betting operations licence" means the comprehensive licence or a limited licence granted under Part 2;

"on-course totalisator betting" means totalisator betting that takes place within a racecourse, and "off-course totalisator betting has a corresponding meaning;

"on-course totalisator betting licence"—see section 34;

"prescribed interstate licence" means a licence or other authority issued under the law of another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth authorising the holder to conduct betting operations in that State or Territory, but does not include a licence of a class excluded by regulation from the ambit of this definition;

"race" or "racing" means—

            (a)         a horse race or horse racing; or

            (b)         a harness race or harness racing; or

            (c)         a greyhound race or greyhound racing;

"racecourse" means a place where a race meeting is held by a racing club, and includes adjacent land or premises to which persons attending the meeting have access in connection with the meeting;

"race meeting" means a meeting at which horse races, harness races or greyhound races are held;

"racing club" means a club or association that—

            (a)         is a body corporate; and

            (b)         is established for the purpose of holding race meetings; and

            (c)         is unable, because of its constitution or its nature, lawfully to return profits to its members; and

            (d)         —

                  (i)         is related to a racing controlling authority through its membership of the authority, or its membership of a body that is a member of the authority; or

                  (ii)         is registered by a racing controlling authority,

and includes a racing controlling authority that holds race meetings;

"racing controlling authority"—see section 6;

"racing distribution agreement"—see section 13;

"responsible gambling code of practice" means a responsible gambling code of practice prescribed under the Gambling Administration Act 2019 ;

"spouse"—a person is the spouse of another if they are legally married;

"taxation default"— section 73A;

"telephone, Internet or other electronic means"—see subsection (3);

"totalisator betting" means betting in accordance with a system under which the amount paid out in respect of a bet made on a particular contingency is affected by the total amount bet on that contingency, and "totalisator bet" has a corresponding meaning;

24 hour sportsbetting licence —see section 34.

        (2)         In this Act, "administrator", "controller" and "liquidator" have (unless the contrary intention appears) the same respective meanings as in the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.

        (3)         In this Act, a reference to "telephone, Internet or other electronic means" is a reference to a means of communicating at a distance by the use of electronic devices.