1964
No. 40 of 1931.
BETTING DUTY.
Authoriza-tion of club cash-sweeps on horse and
pony races.
Authoriza-tion of
totalizator
or
pari-mutuel
betting on horse or
pony races.
Allocation of chances in cash-
sweeps.
Restriction on sale of tickets, hawking of chances, and advertise-ments.
2. Ordinary social or sporting clubs in the Colony may, with the permission in writing in each case of the Commissioner of Police and subject to such conditions as he may see fit to impose, conduct cash-sweeps on horse or pony races: Provided that not less than ninety per cent., or in the case of a club organizing the race not less than eighty per cent., of the total contributions or subscriptions, after deduction of the duty, shall be devoted to prizes for the subscribers.
3. Ordinary race, jockey or hunt clubs which organize meetings for horse or pony races in the Colony may, with the permission in writing of the Commissioner of Police and subject to such conditions as he may see fit to impose, conduct totalizator or pari-mutuel betting on the race course premises on such races: Provided that not less than ninety per cent. of the total bets, after deduction of the duty, shall be devoted to prizes for the ticket-holders.
4.-(1) In the case of cash-sweeps organized by clubs in the Colony the chances shall be allocated by numbered tickets issued in books with or without counterfoils as the Commissioner of Police may decide: Provided that the Commissioner of Police may permit any club to issue lists of numbers against which the names of the subscribers shall be entered.
(2) In the case of cash-sweeps organized by clubs or other bodies elsewhere, ordinary social, sporting, race, jockey or hunt clubs in the Colony as agents for the organizing club or other body and with the permission in writing of the Commissioner of Police may provide lists of numbers, against which their members may sign their names as subscribers for chances, or may issue books of numbered tickets, as the Commissioner of Police may decide.
5.-(1) No tickets, lists, receipts or other substitutes for tickets recording the numbers of the chances allocated for any cash-sweep, totalizator or pari-mutuel may be made, printed, issued, sold or offered for sale except by or on behalf of a club which has received the permission of the Commissioner of Police under this Ordinance.
(2) No hawking of chances in the streets or public advertise-ments of cash-sweeps or of totalizator or pari-mutuel betting
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