Australian Capital Territory
Race and Sports Bookmaking (Sports Bookmaking Events) Determination 2008 (No 2)

Disallowable Instrument DI2008 — 210

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

The Race and Sports Bookmaking Act 2001 (the Act) regulates the activities of sports bookmakers in the Australian Capital Territory.

Subsection 20(1) of the Act provides that the Commission may determine a sporting or other event to be a sports bookmaking event for the purpose of the Act.

This determination revokes DI2008-114 dated 16 May 2008 and notified under the Legislation Register on 22 May 2008.

Schedule 1 of this determination details the various national and international sporting events, excluding greyhound, harness and thoroughbred racing events that a licensee may offer.  This Schedule remains unaltered from the previous determination.

Schedule 2 details the various national and international greyhound, harness and thoroughbred racing events that a licensee may offer.  

An inconsistency with the numbering for the events in Schedule 2 has previously reflected Thoroughbred Racing as being event number ‘4’, this has been amended to reflect the correct number as being ‘3’. 

Further amendments to Schedule 2 of this determination reflect the following inclusions of international racing events:

Greyhound Racing: 
Each New Zealand Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 meeting as scheduled and sanctioned by the New Zealand Greyhound Racing Authority.

Harness Racing: 
Each New Zealand Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 meeting as scheduled and sanctioned by Harness Racing New Zealand.

Thoroughbred Racing: 
Each Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 thoroughbred race, as classified by the Cataloguing Standards Committee, conducted in accordance with the applicable rules as promulgated by the Jockey Club of Canada;

Each Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 thoroughbred race, as classified by the Cataloguing Standards Committee, conducted in accordance with the applicable rules as promulgated by the Direktorium Für Vollblutzucht und Rennen (Germany);
 
Each Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 thoroughbred race, as classified by the Cataloguing Standards Committee, conducted in accordance with the applicable rules as promulgated by L’Unione Nazionale per l’Incremento delle Razza Equine (U.N.I.R.E.) (Italy); and

Each USA Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 event as classified by the International Cataloguing Standards Committee, conducted by the relevant thoroughbred racing controlling authority for each state.

In all other respects, the determination remains unchanged.