AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

GAMING AND BETTING ORDINANCE 1968

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 14 of 1968

	It is provided in the proposed Betting (Off-course Totalizator Agency) Ordinance 1968 that the Australian Capital Territory Totalizator Agency Board may accept bets on greyhound races and any pool being conducted on an Australian Capital Territory racecourse, where that pool is being conducted in respect of races held outside the Territory.

	As a consequence of this amendment it is necessary to amend the Gaming and Betting Act, 1906 of the State of N.S.W., in its application to the Australian Capital Territory.  The amendment is designed to exclude from the definition of “public place” not only the racecourse licensed under the Racecourse Ordinance but also any racecourse in respect of which the Board is, at the time, providing off-course betting facilities.

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