Greyhound Racing Act 2019
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Prohibiting by regulations certain matters in relation to greyhound race tracks | ||
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20. (1) The Board may, with the consent of the Minister, make regulations with respect to the use, management and control of greyhound race tracks to provide for any or all of the following: | ||
(a) prohibiting persons from performing the functions of racing manager, handicapper, judge, control steward, stipendiary steward, time-keeper or hare-driver on greyhound race tracks except under and in accordance with permits granted by the Board under regulations made under section 21 (1) for the purposes of paragraph (a) of that subsection; | ||
(b) prohibiting greyhound races except when a certain class or classes of persons specified in the regulations to perform specified functions on greyhound race tracks and officers of the Board specified in the regulations are in attendance; | ||
(c) prohibiting a certain class or classes of persons performing specified classes of functions on greyhound race tracks from having any beneficial interest in the income of the respective greyhound race tracks or in the ownership of greyhounds raced thereon or from betting on greyhound races thereon; | ||
(d) prohibiting licensees under greyhound race track licences and a certain class or classes of persons performing specified functions on greyhound race tracks from having any beneficial interest in bookmaking on the respective greyhound race tracks. | ||
(2) Where, under paragraph (c) of subsection (1), the Board proposes to make regulations prohibiting persons performing any of the functions mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection from having any beneficial interest in the income of greyhound race tracks, the Board shall serve notice of the proposal on every licensee under a greyhound race track licence and shall, if any representations are made in writing by any such licensee within 28 days of such notice, consider the representations. | ||
(3) A person who, contrary to regulations made under this section— | ||
(a) performs a function prohibited in regulations made under subsection (1) in respect of matters referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), | ||
(b) permits a greyhound race to take place where persons or officers of the Board as specified in regulations in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (1) are not in attendance, | ||
(c) while being prohibited from performing a specified class or classes of functions prohibited in regulations made under this section that person has a beneficial interest in the income of a greyhound race track or the ownership of a greyhound raced thereon, places a bet on a greyhound race thereon, or | ||
(d) being the licensee of a greyhound race track or a person performing a function specified in regulations made under this section, where prohibited in the regulations, has a beneficial interest in bookmaking on the greyhound race track, | ||
commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a class A fine. | ||
(4) Where a person other than the licensee under the greyhound race track licence relating to the track concerned, contravenes subsection (3) and the contravention is proved to have been so committed with the consent or connivance of or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of the licensee, the licensee as well as that person, commits an offence under subsection (3). |