Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this
section —
levy means bookmakers’ betting levy payable
under this Act, as imposed by the Bookmakers Betting Levy Act 1954 ;
on-course turnover means the turnover which
relates to bets of the kind referred to in section 15;
turnover means the amounts of money paid or
promised as the consideration for bets which are made by a bookmaker, whether
the bets are made by the bookmaker as a party to the bet, or whether the bets
are negotiated by the bookmaker as agent for another person
but —
(a) does
not include any money promised or paid by the bookmaker as the consideration
for a bet made by the bookmaker on the bookmaker’s own behalf in the
capacity of a backer but not in the capacity of bookmaker; and
(b) the
Commission shall have an absolute discretion to decide what is and what is not
a bet made by a bookmaker on the bookmaker’s own behalf in the capacity
of a backer but not in the capacity of bookmaker.
(2) A bookmaker shall,
in accordance with the provisions of this Act —
(a) make
true and full returns of the bookmaker’s on-course turnover;
(b) pay
levy on the whole of that turnover, for the year commencing on
1 August 1989 and for each year thereafter, at the rate imposed for
that year by the Bookmakers Betting Levy Act 1954 .
(3) The provisions of
this section do not authorise a holder of any licence under this Act to act as
agent contrary to any condition of the holder’s licence or to any
provision of this Act.
[Section 14 inserted by No. 50 of 1956
s. 2; amended by No. 76 of 1959 s. 3; No. 113 of 1965
s. 8(1); No. 58 of 1990 s. 8; No. 11 of 1992 s. 29
and 35; No. 63 of 1995 s. 50; No. 13 of 2002 s. 10;
No. 35 of 2003 s. 102.]