12Supervision of bookmaker betting

12 Supervision of bookmaker betting

(1)  Tasracing is to issue each person who is appointed as a betting supervisor with an identity card –

(a) bearing a recent photograph of the person and the person's name; and

(b) stipulating that the person is a betting supervisor.

(2)  A betting supervisor may, on production of the betting supervisor’s identity card, do any one or more of the following:

(a) ask questions and require answers of bookmakers who are or appear to be engaging in bookmaking;

(b) require a bookmaker to produce, for the betting supervisor's inspection, a betting record or book of account that the bookmaker is required to keep under the Act;

(c) require a bookmaker to show the betting supervisor a betting ticket that the bookmaker is about to issue to a bettor;

(d) give bookmakers written or oral directions for the purpose of ensuring that bets are made and settled in accordance with the Act.

(3)  A bookmaker must not obstruct or hinder, or fail to cooperate with, a betting supervisor who is exercising or seeking to exercise the betting supervisor's powers under this regulation.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 25 penalty units.

(4)  A bookmaker who is given a direction or required to do something under subregulation (2) must comply with that direction or satisfy that requirement.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 25 penalty units.