23/12/1930: Totalisator (Double Event) Regulations, 1930.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of Section 6 of the Totalisator Act, 1929 (No. 22 of 1929), that the Minister for Finance may by order make regulations for controlling and regulating the setting up, maintenance, and working of totalisators under totalisator licences :

NOW, THEREFORE, THE MINISTER FOR FINANCE in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (1) of Section 6 of the Totalisator Act, 1929 (No. 22 of 1929), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling does by this Order make the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited for all purposes as the Totalisator (Double Event) Regulations, 1930.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In these Regulations, the expression "the Act" means the Totalisator Act, 1929 (No. 22 of 1929); the expression "the licensees" means the persons licensed under the Act to set up, maintain and work the totalisator in relation to which that expression is used.

4. The Totalisator Regulations, 1930, shall apply except where expressly varied by these Regulations.

5. No sum shall be staked by means of a totalisator on a double event on any races after the earlier of such races has started.

6. Every totalisator ticket for staking on a double event shall have stated thereon the date and place of issue thereof, particulars, in full, of the double event, and the sum staked in respect of which it is issued, and shall also have clearly printed thereon a statement that it is issued subject to the regulations made by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1) of Section 6 of the Act and for the time being in force.

7. The following provisions shall, so far as they extend, regulate the application by the licensees of money staked by means of a totalisator in respect of a double event, that is to say :—

(a) not less than ninety per cent. of the total amount staked by means of a totalisator in respect of a double event (exclusive of sums so staked which are repayable under these Regulations) shall be distributable amongst the holders of successful totalisator tickets issued from such totalisator in respect of such double event ;

(b) where there are no successful totalisator tickets issued from a totalisator in respect of a double event, ninety per cent. and no more of every sum staked by means of such totalisator in respect of such double event shall be repayable to the holder of the totalisator ticket issued in respect of such sum ;

(c) every sum staked by means of a totalisator in respect of a double event which includes a horse which was not declared a starter at the specified time to the Keeper of the Match Book, on the day previous to the starting of either race comprising the double event shall be repayable less 10 per cent. to the holder of the totalisator ticket issued ;

(d) if either race comprising the double event is declared void or is not held at all or is postponed to a subsequent race meeting every sum staked by means of a totalisator shall (notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation) be repayable in full to the holder of the totalisator ticket issued in respect of such sum ;

(e) where money is distributable amongst the holders of successful totalisator tickets issued from a totalisator in respect of a double event, but by reason of an act of God, unlawful act of any person riot, civil commotion, fire, strike, mechanical breakdown of the totalisator or any part thereof, or any other cause it is not possible to ascertain the individual amounts so distributable to such holders respectively, every sum staked by means of such totalisator in respect of such double event shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, be repayable in full to the holder of the totalisator ticket issued in respect of such sum ;

(f) every sum distributed or repayable to the holder of a totalisator ticket shall be calculated to a multiple of sixpence and for that purpose every fraction of sixpence shall, as the licensees may think proper in respect of each such fraction, be treated as a complete sixpence or be disregarded.

8. Every sum distributable or repayable to the holder of a totalisator ticket for a double event shall be payable only to the bearer of such ticket on presentation by him of such ticket either at the totalisator from which such ticket was issued while such totalisator is working or at the offices of the licensees during office hours of any day after and not more than one month after the said day of such issue.

9. Whenever a totalisator ticket on a double event, to the holder of which a sum would be distributable or repayable under these Regulations, is not presented for payment at the place prescribed and within the time limited by these Regulations such sum shall, unless it has been previously paid by the licensees on evidence of the loss or destruction of such totalisator ticket, become the property of the licensees at the expiration of the said time so limited.

10. The licensees shall cause a printed copy of these Regulations to be kept posted up in a prominent place on or near every totalisator worked by them at all times while such totalisator is being worked for staking on a double event, and every sum staked by means of a totalisator on a double event shall be deemed to be so staked subject to and on the terms of these Regulations so far as the same are relevant.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 23rd day of December, in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty.

J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Secretary.