Racing (Race Fields) Regulations 2019

Racing (Race Fields) Regulations 2019

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Racing Regulation Act 2004 .

C. WARNER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

ELISE ARCHER

Minister for Racing

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Racing (Race Fields) Regulations 2019 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on 1 July 2019.

3.   Interpretation

In these regulations –

Act means the Racing Regulation Act 2004 ;

approval means a race field information publication approval;

wagering operations means operations relating to –

(a) betting conducted by a bookmaker, totalizator or any other wagering operator on a fixed-odds basis; or

(b) betting conducted by means of a totalizator; or

(c) betting conducted by means of a betting exchange.

4.   Other conditions on race field information publication approvals

(1)  For the purposes of section 54B(2)(a) of the Act, conditions relating to the preservation of the integrity and reputation of the relevant kind of racing in Tasmania including, but not limited to, the following conditions are prescribed as permissible conditions:

(a) requiring the approval holder to provide the Director with access to all the approval holder's betting information and analyses in relation to the race field information covered by the approval;

(b) requiring the approval holder to furnish information to any inquiry or investigation specified by the Director within the time specified by the Director;

(c) requiring the approval holder to cooperate with any inquiry or investigation specified by the Director, including by providing requested details of any betting account to the inquiry or investigation;

(d) requiring the approval holder to permit the Director to monitor wagering activity that relates to the race field information covered by the approval;

(e) requiring the approval holder not to open or maintain any account for a person who is the subject of a warning-off notice issued by a specified body, registered club, steward or the Director or who is disqualified from participating in any racing activities by a specified body, steward or the Director;

(f) requiring the approval holder to require any person who opens a wagering account with the approval holder to prove their identity in accordance with standards sufficient to comply with the prescribed verification procedure pursuant to the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 of the Commonwealth;

(g) requiring the approval holder to use a secure computer system, or other system approved by the Director, for the approval holder's wagering operations to ensure that a proper audit trail of all wagers is kept;

(h) requiring the approval holder to participate, where the approval holder is able to do so, in any online wagering monitoring system specified by the Director;

(i) if the approval holder conducts wagering operations, in Australia or in a country outside Australia, requiring the approval holder to hold (and continue to hold) an appropriate licence or authority (however described) under relevant State or Territory legislation or legislation of that country outside Australia that authorises it to carry out those wagering operations;

(j) requiring the approval holder to notify the Director immediately on the commencement, in Tasmania or elsewhere, of any prosecution or disciplinary action against the approval holder under any racing-related legislation, rules of racing or rules of betting.

(2)  For the purposes of subregulation (1) , specified body means any of the following:

(a) Tasracing;

(b) the relevant racing control body of another State or a Territory that is responsible for each code of racing in that State or Territory;

(c) the Australian Racing Board;

(d) Harness Racing Australia Inc.;

(e) Greyhounds Australasia Limited.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 26 June 2019

These regulations are administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.