167Authorised betting and unauthorised betting, &c.

167 Authorised betting and unauthorised betting, &c.

(1)  Except as otherwise provided by this Act, it is lawful for a person to engage in authorised betting and the placement or acceptance of an authorised bet does not, in itself, constitute an offence.

(2)  For the purposes of this Act, authorised betting is –

(a) betting conducted in person by or with a registered bookmaker or bookmaker's agent who is engaging in bookmaking on a racecourse in accordance with Part 9 ; or

(b) on-course telephone betting conducted in accordance with the requirements of Subdivision 2 of Division 3 of Part 9 that apply to on-course telephone betting, by or with a registered bookmaker whose certificate of registration is endorsed with an on-course telephone betting endorsement; or

(c) off-course telephone betting conducted in accordance with the requirements of Subdivision 2 of Division 3 of Part 9 that apply to off-course telephone betting, by or with a registered bookmaker whose certificate of registration is endorsed with an off-course telephone betting endorsement; or

(d) off-course function betting conducted in accordance with the requirements of Subdivision 2 of Division 3 of Part 9 that apply to off-course function betting, by or with a registered bookmaker whose certificate of registration is endorsed with an off-course function betting endorsement and who is conducting betting at a function to which an off-course function approval issued to the bookmaker relates; or

(e) betting in a totalizator conducted by or on behalf of a registered club at a race meeting or betting-only meeting under its control; or

(f) such other kind of betting as may be prescribed.

(3)  Any betting that is not authorised betting by virtue of subsection (2) is, for the purposes of this Act, unauthorised betting.