14Punters’ clubs

14 Punters’ clubs

14 Punters’ clubs

(1) A person must not organise or conduct a punters’ club at a race meeting without—

(a) the consent of the racing club conducting the race meeting, and

(b) the written approval of the racing controlling body responsible for that racing club.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2) In this section—

punters’ club means a syndicate that involves a group of persons contributing money into a fund for the purposes of betting that money—

(a) with a totalizator conducted at a race meeting, or

(b) with a licensed bookmaker who is carrying on bookmaking at a race meeting,

but does not include a betting syndicate formed on a social basis only.

s 14: Am 2014 No 25, Sch 1 [4]; 2018 No 7, Sch 1.1 [4].