{"id":"F2022L00486","name":"Automatic Mutual Recognition (Australian Capital Territory) (Notification Requirement—Race Bookmaker’s Agent) Determination 2022","slug":"automatic-mutual-recognition-australian-capital-territory-notification-requirement-race-bookmaker-s-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441327,"registerId":"F2022L00486-fast-fetch-1775956652268","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Automatic Mutual Recognition (Australian Capital Territory) (Notification Requirement—Race Bookmaker’s Agent) Determination 2022","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 22.10.0\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nAutomatic Mutual Recognition (Australian Capital Territory) (Notification Requirement—Race Bookmaker’s Agent) Determination 2022\n\nI, Chris Steel, Special Minister of State, make the following determination.\n\nDated  30 March 2022  \n\nChris Steel\n\nSpecial Minister of State\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1  Name\n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Simplified outline of this instrument\n\n5  Definitions\n\n6  Notification requirement\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Automatic Mutual Recognition (Australian Capital Territory) (Notification Requirement—Race Bookmaker’s Agent) Determination 2022.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument 1 July 2022\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under subsection 42J(4) of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.\n\n4  Simplified outline of this instrument\n\nThe purpose of this instrument is to require a person to notify a local registration authority before the person begins to rely on automatic deemed registration under the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth to carry on an activity in the Australian Capital Territory to which the determination is to apply.\n\nUnless revoked earlier, this instrument will sunset under section 50 of the Legislation Act 2003 of the Commonwealth (see subsection 42J(5) of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth). This will generally mean that this instrument will be repealed on the first 1 April or 1 October falling on or after the tenth anniversary of the registration of the instrument on the Federal Register of Legislation.\n\n5  Definitions\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.\n\n*covered activity means an activity authorised to be carried on under a race bookmaker’s agent licence under the Race and Sports Bookmaking Act 2001.\n\nlocal registration authority means the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission established under the Gambling and Racing Control Act 1999 of the Australian Capital Territory.\n\n6  Notification requirement\n\n  For subsection 42J(4) of the Act, a person intending to carry on a covered activity in the Australian Capital Territory must notify the local registration authority before the person begins to carry on the activity.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument's scope aligns with its stated purpose (s4): it requires prior notification to the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission before relying on automatic deemed registration to carry on a covered activity (s6), with 'covered activity' defined in s5. No provisions expand or narrow coverage beyond that stated purpose, and the instrument includes commencement and sunset details (s2, s4)."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow subject‑matter: limited to activities authorised by a race bookmaker’s agent licence (definition of covered activity) (s5).","Single, procedural obligation: a pre‑commencement notification requirement (s6) rather than a licensing test or discretionary approval.","Linked to Commonwealth Mutual Recognition Act (authority under s42J(4) cited in s3), creating inter‑jurisdictional effect and reliance on automatic deemed registration.","Explicit commencement date (1 July 2022) and a built‑in sunset mechanism (s4), which limit temporal scope and long‑term regulatory burden.","Low administrative discretion: the instrument prescribes notification rather than new substantive criteria, reducing interpretive complexity.","Compliance burden is concentrated on businesses (must notify before beginning) and administrative effort for the local registration authority to record/monitor notifications (s6)."],"plain_english_summary":"**This instrument requires anyone who intends to carry on activities authorised by a race bookmaker’s agent licence in the Australian Capital Territory to notify the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission before starting, when relying on automatic deemed registration under the Mutual Recognition Act.** It affects out‑of‑jurisdiction bookmakers using mutual recognition and local regulators: businesses bear the compliance step and the Commission receives and records notifications. The instrument commences 1 July 2022 and contains a statutory sunset."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the narrow function intended by its enabling provision (subsection 42J(4) of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992). It specifies a notification requirement for a single occupation (race bookmaker's agent) in a single jurisdiction (ACT). There is no scope creep or expansion beyond the original statutory purpose of allowing jurisdictions to impose notification requirements on automatic deemed registration."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument: only 6 sections spanning approximately 1 page","Only 3 defined terms in section 5: 'Act', 'covered activity', and 'local registration authority'","Single operative provision (section 6) with straightforward conditional logic: 'must notify... before... begins to carry on the activity'","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the empowering provision (Mutual Recognition Act 1992) and the definition of the covered activity (Race and Sports Bookmaking Act 2001)","No exceptions, exemptions, or nested conditions","Standard boilerplate provisions for name, commencement, authority, and sunset that are common to all legislative instruments"],"plain_english_summary":"This rule requires people already licensed as race bookmaker’s agents elsewhere in Australia, operating under the national automatic mutual recognition scheme, to notify the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission before they start working in the ACT. It lets licensed agents work across borders while giving the local regulator oversight; it took effect 1 July 2022 and will sunset after 10 years."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/automatic-mutual-recognition-australian-capital-territory-notification-requirement-race-bookmaker-s-","history":"/api/acts/automatic-mutual-recognition-australian-capital-territory-notification-requirement-race-bookmaker-s-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/automatic-mutual-recognition-australian-capital-territory-notification-requirement-race-bookmaker-s-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/automatic-mutual-recognition-australian-capital-territory-notification-requirement-race-bookmaker-s-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/automatic-mutual-recognition-australian-capital-territory-notification-requirement-race-bookmaker-s-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/automatic-mutual-recognition-australian-capital-territory-notification-requirement-race-bookmaker-s-/documents"}}