Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Gambling Regulation Act 2003 - SECT 2.5.14.

Offences in respect of totalisators

2.5.14. Offences in respect of totalisators

A person must not-

   (a)  use or conduct, or assist in using or conducting, a totalisator; or

   (b)  for profit, receive directly or indirectly from any other person
        whether personally or by messenger, agent, post, telephone or
        otherwise any money or authority to collect or receive money for the
        purpose of placing, investing or depositing it, or any part of it, in
        a totalisator; or

   (c)  send or cause to be sent or knowingly deliver to another person a
        document directly or indirectly-

   (i)  requesting or inviting the other person to employ the person or anyone
        else as an agent; or

   (ii) offering the person's services as an agent in purchasing a ticket or
        making a bet or investing money- in connection with the working of a
        totalisator; or

   (d)  employ or allow another person to act for the person as an agent in
        purchasing a ticket or making a bet or investing money in connection
        with the working of a totalisator; or

   (e)  make or enter into a bet on the result of any event whereby the person
        on the person's own or any other person's behalf agrees to pay to the
        other party to the bet, if the latter should win it, a sum of money
        the amount of which is dependent upon the result of the working of a
        totalisator; or

   (f)  sell or offer for sale or buy or accept a ticket entitling or
        purporting to entitle the purchaser or holder to an interest in the
        result of the working of a totalisator; or

   (g)  make a contract or give an undertaking to pay or receive any money the
        amount of which is determined or to be determined by the result of the
        working of a totalisator.

Penalty: For a first offence, 15 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 months or
both; For a second offence, 25 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months or
both; For a third or subsequent offence, imprisonment for 12 months.

Division 4A-Betting exchanges