AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

BOOKMAKERS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 21 of 1986

Section 56 of the Bookmakers Ordinance 1985 (“the Ordinance”) provides that the Minister may make regulations prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Ordinance, and in particular may make regulations relating to the keeping of records by bookmakers, and prescribing penalties not exceeding $500 for offences against the regulations.

Regulation 3 of the Bookmakers Regulations is amended by adding a new sub‑regulation (2) prescribing the particulars to be entered in the Register for the purpose of section 36A of the Ordinance as the name and address of the applicant, the period in respect of which the licence is to be in force, the licence number, the date on which the licence was issued, and the kind of race meetings to which the licence relates.