Racing Board and Racecourses (Amendment) Act, 1975

Amendment of section 30 of Principal Act.

6.—Section 30 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) Where an authorised officer of the Board observes that a person is engaged in or carrying on the business of bookmaker on any authorised racecourse or in the precincts thereof, he may (subject to the production by him if so required of his warrant of appointment as such authorised officer) require that person or any other person present who is engaged with him in or carrying on with him the business of bookmaker to produce to him forthwith, and permit him to inspect and take copies of, or extracts from, any document then in that person's or that other person's possession (as the case may be) and used or capable of being used or believed by such officer to be used or to be capable of being used for the purposes of such business.”.