THE TOTALISATOR IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1832, 6 January 1880, Page 3

THE TOTALISATOR IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The following is the full text of_ the Act legalising the use of the totalisator in South An Act to Remedy Some of the Evils Arising from Betting at Races. —[Assented to October 25th, 1879.]—Whereas great evils have resulted from rash and indiscriminate betting at races, and young men and others are often tempted by reason of the uncertainty of losing, and the chance of winning, to make bets which, if lost, are wholly beyond their means to pay, and in order to pay the same resort to criminal means of obtaining money : And whereas the use of the’totalisator would tend to diminish betting by giving young men and others a pecuniary interest in races without the evils incident to indiscriminate betting—Be it, therefore, enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, by and with the Jadvice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in the present Parliament assembled, as follows :—l. From and after the passing of this Act the instrument or contrivance for wagering or betting known as tho totalisator, or any other machine or instrument of a like nature, and conducted upon the same principles, shall, when used under the auspices of, and with the permission of, any duly recognised racing club, npon any public racecourse, be exempted from the provision of the Lottery and Gaming Act, 1875, and no house, office, room or place, or any racecourse used for the pnr poses aforesaid shall be held to be within the provisions of the sa'd Act : Provided that no more than one such totalisator, machine, or instrument shall be authorised or used npon such racecourse at any one time. In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty I herely assent to this Bill.—William F, Drummond Jekvois, Governor.