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Racing Act 1958
4IProhibition on publishing prohibited advertising in relation to the approved off‑course premises
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4I Prohibition on publishing prohibited advertising in relation to the approved off‑course premises
(1) A registered bookmaker who holds an approval under section 4C must not publish or cause to be published—
(a) any prohibited advertising in relation to approved off-course premises;
(b) the address of the approved off-course premises.
(2) A person must not, on behalf of a registered bookmaker who holds an approval under section 4C, publish or cause to be published—
(a) any prohibited advertising in relation to approved off-course premises;
(b) the address of the approved off-course premises.
***prohibited*** ***advertising*** means any form of advertising that contains any information, term, expression, symbol or other thing—
(a) that draws attention to, or can reasonably be taken to draw attention to, the approved off-course premises or the presence of bookmakers or approved substitutes in those premises; or
(b) that uses a term or expression frequently associated with bookmakers or betting and associates those terms with the approved off-course premises;
***publish*** includes disseminate in any way, whether by oral, visual, written or other means (for example, dissemination by means of cinema, video, radio, electronics, the Internet or television or by means of promotional material such as club journals, brochures or flyers).
No. 6070 s. 5.