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Betting and Racing Act 1998
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#### 14 Punters’ clubs
14 Punters’ clubs
> > (1) A person must not organise or conduct a punters’ club at a race meeting without—
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> > > (a) the consent of the racing club conducting the race meeting, and
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> > > (b) the written approval of the racing controlling body responsible for that racing club.
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> > Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
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> > (2) In this section—
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> > punters’ club means a syndicate that involves a group of persons contributing money into a fund for the purposes of betting that money—
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> > > (a) with a totalizator conducted at a race meeting, or
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> > > (b) with a licensed bookmaker who is carrying on bookmaking at a race meeting,
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> > but does not include a betting syndicate formed on a social basis only.
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> **s 14:** Am 2014 No 25, Sch 1 \[4\]; 2018 No 7, Sch 1.1 \[4\].