1. This Act may be cited as the Betting Act.
Interpretation.
2. ?1) In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or
context ?
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"access" includes access through the telephone, by post or by telegram;
"betting information centre" means any place kept or used for receiving or
transmitting by telephone or other means any information relating to any
horse-race or other sporting event for the purpose of betting or wagering in
contravention of this Act;
"bookmaker" means any person who, whether on his own account or as penciller,
runner, employee or agent for any other person, receives or negotiates bets
or wagers whether on a cash or on a credit basis and whether for money or
money’s worth, or who in any manner holds himself out or permits himself to
be held out in any manner as a person who receives or negotiates those bets
or wagers; but does not include a club, its officers or employees or any
other person or organisation operating or conducting a totalisator or
parimutuel or any other system or method of cash or credit betting
authorised under section 22;
"common betting-house" means ?
(a) any place kept or used for betting or wagering on any event or
contingency of or relating to any horse-race or other sporting event to
which the public or any class of the public has or may have access;
(b) any place kept or used for habitual betting or wagering on any such
event or contingency as aforesaid, whether the public has, or may have,
access thereto or not; and
(c) any place used by a bookmaker for the purpose of receiving or
negotiating bets or wagers on any such event or contingency as aforesaid
whether the bets or wagers reach the bookmaker by the hand of the person
placing the bet or his agent or the bookmaker’s agent or through the
telephone or by post or by telegram or by any other means;
"equipment" has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1999;
Cap. 323.
"penciller" means a person who helps a bookmaker to keep his accounts or
record of bets in connection with horse-races;
"place" means any house, office, room or building, and any place or spot,
whether open or enclosed, and includes a ship, boat, or other vessel whether
afloat or not, and any vehicle;
"runner" means a person employed by a bookmaker to collect and settle bets
either on salary or on commission basis;
"sporting event" includes any race, fight, game, sport or exercise;
"telecommunication system" has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications
Act 1999.
Cap. 323.
(2) A place shall be deemed to be used for a purpose if it is used for that
purpose on only one occasion.
(3) A place shall be deemed to be used for habitual betting or wagering if
betting or wagering is frequently carried on therein, notwithstanding that
betting or wagering is not the primary purpose for which that place is
normally used.
(4) Every person who demises or lets for hire a place shall be deemed to be
the owner thereof.
(5) A common betting-house shall be deemed to be a common nuisance and
contrary to law.
Offences relating to common betting-houses and betting information centres.
3. ?1) Any person who ?br>
(a) being the owner or occupier, or having the use temporarily or otherwise
thereof, keeps or uses a place as a common betting-house or betting
information centre;
(b) permits a place of which he is the owner or occupier or of which he has
the use temporarily or otherwise, to be kept or used as a common
betting-house or betting information centre;
(c) has the care or management of or in any manner assists in the management
or in the business of, a place kept or used as a common betting-house or
betting information centre;
(d) receives directly or indirectly any money or valuable thing, for or in
respect of any bet or wager on any such event or contingency, as is
mentioned in this Act, in a common betting-house or betting information
centre; or
(e) announces, exhibits or publishes, or causes to be announced, exhibited
or published, either orally or by means of any letter, circular, telegram,
placard, handbill, card, print, writing, design, sign, advertisement or
otherwise that a place is opened, kept or used as a common betting-house or
betting information centre within or without Singapore, or in any other
manner invites or solicits any person to commit a breach of any of the
provisions of this Act,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of
not less than $20,000 and not more than $200,000 and shall also be punished
with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years.
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(2) Any person who occupies or has the use temporarily of a place which is
kept or used by another person as a common betting-house or betting
information centre shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have
permitted that place to be so kept or used.
Advancing money for conducting business of common betting-house.
4. Any person who advances or furnishes money for the purpose of
establishing or conducting the business of a common betting-house shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of not less
than $10,000 and not more than $100,000 and shall also be punished with
imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years.
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Betting in a common betting-house.
5. ?1) Except as permitted by an exemption under section 22, any person who
bets or wagers in a common betting-house, or with a bookmaker in any place
or by any means, or who for the purpose of betting or wagering loiters in
any place to which the public has or may have access shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
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(2) A person found in a common betting-house, or found escaping therefrom on
the occasion of its being entered under this Act shall be presumed, until
the contrary is proved, to be or to have been betting or wagering therein.
(3) Any person who ?br>
(a) acts as a bookmaker in any place;
(b) for the purpose of bookmaking or settling bets loiters in any common
betting-house or in any place to which the public has or may have access; or
(c) assists, by giving warning or otherwise, any person committing an
offence under this Act to evade arrest or detection,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of
not less than $20,000 and not more than $200,000 and shall also be punished
with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years.
(4) When any person is convicted of an offence under this section all books,
accounts, documents, telegrams, writings, circulars, cards or other articles
used as a subject or means of betting or wagering, or in connection
therewith, and all moneys or securities for money found in his possession
which a Magistrate’s Court or District Court is of opinion were used or
intended to be used for betting or wagering shall be declared by that Court
to be forfeited to the State and shall be dealt with accordingly.
(5) An offence under subsection (3) shall be a non-bailable seizable offence
and any person making an arrest for such an offence may seize and detain any
articles liable to be forfeited.
(6) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 352 of the Criminal
Procedure Code a police officer shall have power to release on bail a person
accused of an offence under subsection (3).
Cap. 68.
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Penalty for unlawful announcement of information on horse-race, etc.
6. Any person who for the purpose of betting or wagering in contravention of
this Act announces or publishes or causes to be announced or published in
any manner information relating to any horse-race or other sporting event
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of
not less than $5,000 and not more than $50,000 and shall also be punished
with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
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Money paid recoverable.
7. ?1) Any money or valuable thing received by any person convicted under
section 5 (3) as a deposit on or in settlement of any bet or wager shall be
deemed to have been received to or for the use of the person from whom it
was received.
(2) Such money or valuable thing, or the value thereof, may be recovered
accordingly with full costs of suit in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Presumption against person accepting or receiving stakes, etc.
8. ?1) Any person accepting or receiving bets, stakes or wagers or found in
possession of any books, accounts, documents, telegrams, writings,
circulars, cards or other articles which are used or appear to have been
used or intended to be used in connection with or which relate or appear to
relate to the business of a bookmaker shall be presumed until the contrary
is proved to be acting as a bookmaker.
(2) Any person who settles or pays money or money’s worth in respect of bets
or wagers relating to a horse-race or any other kind of race shall also be
presumed until the contrary is proved to be acting as a bookmaker.
Presumptions.
9. ?1) Where in any proceedings under this Act it is proved that any place
entered under this Act was provided with 3 or more telephones or telephone
lines and ?br>
(a) was installed with any telecommunication system or equipment which was
arranged in such a manner as to suggest that it is or was being used for the
receiving or transmitting of any information relating to any horse-race or
other sporting event notwithstanding that such telecommunication system or
equipment has been disconnected or tampered with;
(b) any person found in a place so entered was erasing, tampering with or
destroying any writing, sign, mark or symbol relating to the results or
dividends payable on any horse-race or other sporting event; or
(c) two or more telephone calls were received at any such place enquiring
about the results, commentary or dividends payable on any horse-race or
other sporting event,
it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the place is a
betting information centre and that it is so kept, used or permitted to be
used by the owner or occupier thereof, and that any other person found in
such place is assisting in the business of the betting information centre.
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(2) Where in any proceedings under this Act it is proved that ?br>
(a) any document or thing designed, adapted, or intended for use or used for
the purpose of betting or wagering was found in any place entered under this
Act or upon any person found in such place;
(b) any person found in a place entered under this Act was erasing,
tampering with or destroying any writing, sign, mark or symbol relating to
bets or wagers on any horse-race or other sporting event; or
(c) two or more telephone calls were received at any place entered under
this Act and the calls relate to the receiving or negotiating of bets or
wagers or to any results, commentary or dividends payable on any horse-race
or other sporting event,
it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the place is a
common betting-house and that it is so kept, used or permitted to be used by
the owner or occupier thereof, and that any other person found in such place
in possession of any such document or thing as is referred to in paragraph
(a) is assisting in the management of such common betting-house.
Court to make order for demolition of structural contrivances for
facilitating betting.
10. Whenever it appears to the court upon the trial of any offence under
this Act that the place in or in respect of which the offence is alleged to
have been committed is a common betting-house and that the place is fitted
or provided with any of the means or contrivances mentioned in section 9,
the court shall order the demolition and destruction of such of them as
consist of staircases, doors, partitions, ladders, planks, platforms, posts,
palings, bars, bolts and other things which appear to the court to have been
specially erected or constructed for the purpose of facilitating the
carrying on of betting on the premises.
Search warrant against premises used as common betting-house.
11. ?1) A Magistrate or a police officer not below the rank of assistant
superintendent on being satisfied, upon written information, and after any
further inquiry which he thinks necessary, that there is good reason to
believe that any place is kept or used as a common betting-house may by
warrant under his hand or by writing under his hand, as the case may be,
authorise any person therein named, or any police officer, with such
assistance, and by such force, as is necessary, by night or by day, to enter
or go to that place and to search the place and all persons found therein,
and to seize all books, documents, telegrams, writings, circulars, cards or
other articles reasonably supposed to have been used or intended to be used
as a subject or means of betting or wagering, or in connection therewith,
and all moneys and securities for money which are found in that place or on
any such persons, and also to detain all such persons until they and that
place have been searched.
(2) If any of the things or circumstances which are by this Act made
presumptive evidence of guilt are found in such place, or on any person
therein, every person therein shall be arrested and taken before a
Magistrate’s Court or District Court to be dealt with according to law.
(3) All books, documents, telegrams, writings, circulars, cards or other
articles used as a subject or means of betting or wagering, or in connection
therewith, and all moneys or securities for money, found in a common
betting-house, or on any persons found therein, or escaping therefrom, which
a Magistrate’s Court or District Court is of opinion were used or intended
to be used for betting or wagering, shall be declared by that Court to be
forfeited to the State, and shall be dealt with accordingly.
Search warrant against persons in possession of betting instruments.
12. A Magistrate or a police officer not below the rank of assistant
superintendent on being satisfied upon reasonable information and after any
inquiry which he may think necessary, that there is good reason to believe
that any books, documents, telegrams, writings, circulars, cards or other
articles used as a subject or means of betting or wagering, or in connection
therewith, are likely to be found on any person may by warrant under his
hand or by writing under his hand, as the case may be, order any police
officer to arrest and search that person and if any such article is found
upon his person he shall be taken before a Magistrate’s Court or District
Court to be dealt with according to law.
Arrest and search upon suspicion.
13. Any police officer having reasonable suspicion that such articles as are
mentioned in section 12 may be found on any person and having reasonable
ground for believing that by delay in reporting the offender may escape, may
arrest and search that person himself and if any such article is found upon
the person searched the offender shall be taken before a police officer not
below the rank of sergeant to be dealt with according to law.
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Magistrate or police officer may himself enter and search.
14. A Magistrate or a police officer not below the rank of assistant
superintendent may himself do what he may under sections 11 and 12 authorise
a police officer to do whenever the Magistrate or police officer not below
the rank of assistant superintendent is competent to issue a warrant or
written authority under those sections respectively and also in any of the
following cases:
(a) if any person has, within the preceding 6 months, been convicted of
having kept or used as a common betting-house the place proposed to be
entered;
(b) if the place proposed to be entered is occupied by a club or society
which has not been exempted under section 22 and he has reason to believe
that betting or wagering on horse-races, fights, games or sports is
frequently carried on there;
(c) if he has personal knowledge of such facts and circumstances as satisfy
him that there are sufficient grounds for a search under section 11; or
(d) if he receives the required information orally under such circumstances
that the object of the search would in his opinion be defeated by the delay
necessary for reducing the information to writing to enable a search warrant
or written authority to be issued under section 11 (1).
Evidence by police officer to be presumptive evidence.
15. In all proceedings under this Act any evidence given by a police officer
that any book, account, document, telegram, writing, circular, card or other
article produced before the court had been used or was intended to be used
for betting or wagering, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to
be sufficient evidence of the fact.
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Protection of informers from discovery.
16. ?1) Subject to this section, no information laid under this Act shall
be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever, and
no witness shall be obliged or permitted to disclose the name or address of
any informer under this Act or state any matter which might lead to his
discovery.
(2) If any books, documents or papers which are in evidence or liable to
inspection in any civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever contain any entry
in which any informer is named or described or which might lead to his
discovery, the court shall cause all such entries to be concealed from view
or to be obliterated so far as is necessary to protect the informer from
discovery but no further.
(3) If on the trial of any offence under this Act the court, after full
inquiry into the case, believes that the informer wilfully made in his
information a material statement which he knew or believed to be false or
did not believe to be true, the court may require the production of the
original information and permit inquiry and require full disclosure
concerning the informer.
Obstruction of police officers.
17. Any person who obstructs any police officer in the exercise of any
powers under this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on
conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding one year or to both.
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Examination of offenders.
18. ?1) Whenever two or more persons are charged with any offence under
this Act, the Magistrate’s Court or District Court may require one or more
of them to give evidence as a witness or witnesses for the prosecution.
(2) Any such person who refuses to be sworn or affirmed or to answer any
lawful question, shall be dealt with in the same way as witnesses so
refusing may by law be dealt with by a Magistrate’s Court or District Court.
(3) Every person so required to give evidence who, in the opinion of the
court, makes true and full discovery of all things as to which he is
lawfully examined, shall be entitled to receive a certificate of indemnity
under the hand of the Magistrate or Judge, as the case may be, stating that
he has made a true and full discovery of all things as to which he was
examined, and such certificate shall be a bar to all legal proceedings
against him in respect of such things as aforesaid.
Binding over on second conviction.
19. ?1) If a person, who has been convicted of an offence under this Act,
is again convicted of the same or any other offence under this Act, the
Magistrate’s Court or District Court may, in addition to the punishment
provided for such offence, make an order requiring him to give security, by
bond with one or more sureties, that he will not offend against this Act for
such period not exceeding one year, as the court thinks fit to fix.
(2) Every such order shall be made as nearly as may be in the same manner,
and shall have the like effect and consequences as if the order were made
under section 74 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Cap. 68.
Jurisdiction of courts.
20. A District Court or a Magistrate’s Court shall have jurisdiction to hear
and determine all proceedings under this Act and, notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained in the Criminal Procedure Code, shall have power
to impose the full penalty or punishment in respect of any offence under
this Act.
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Stakes.
21. Nothing in this Act shall extend to any person receiving or holding any
money or valuable thing by way of stakes or deposit to be paid to the winner
of any race or lawful sport, game or exercise or to the owner of any horse
engaged in a race.
Exemption.
22. ?1) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, either generally
or in any particular case and subject to such conditions as he may impose,
exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Act ?br>
(a) the members and officers of any racing club or association in respect of
any totalisator or pari-mutuel betting or any other system or method of cash
or credit betting held, promoted, organised, administered or operated by the
racing club or association where the betting takes place under the control
or supervision of one or more officers of that racing club or association;
or
(b) any other person or organisation in respect of any system or method of
cash or credit betting held, promoted, organised, administered or operated
by the person or organisation where the betting takes place under the
control or supervision of that person or organisation.
(2) Every racing club or association exempted under subsection (1) shall
place on the totalisator or pari-mutuel under its control or supervision all
bets made under any system of cash or credit betting held, promoted,
organised, administered or operated by it.
(3) It shall be lawful at any time for any racing club or association
exempted under subsection (1) to admit members of the public to its premises
when racing takes place on payment of an admission fee or to places under
the control or supervision of any one or more of its officers either without
payment or on payment of an admission fee.
(4) Where an admission fee is charged, the admission fee shall be subject to
the payment of duty under the Entertainments Duty Act.
Cap. 94.
Reward to informer.
23. The court may direct any fine or any portion of any fine imposed and
levied under this Act to be paid to the informer.
Singapore Betting and Sweepstake
Act
1. This Act may be cited as the Betting and Sweepstake Duties Act.
Interpretation
2. For the purposes of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires ?br>
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Stamp Duties appointed under
section 3 of the Stamp Duties Act (Cap. 312);
"exempt organisation" means any person or organisation that is exempt from
all of the provisions of the Betting Act (Cap. 21) under a notification made
under section 22 (1) of that Act, or from all of the provisions of the
Common Gaming Houses Act (Cap. 49) under a notification made under section
24 (1) of that Act;
"football game" means the game also known as soccer, whether taking place
inside or outside Singapore;
"promote" includes controlling or supervising the receipt or negotiation of
bets or the conduct of games of chance, and “promoter?and “promoting?shall
be construed accordingly;
"promoter" , in relation to any racing club or association, means the
secretary of the racing club or association which has promoted any
totalisator, pari-mutuel or any other system or method of cash or credit
betting or sweepstake;
"sporting event" means any type of game, sport or exercise prescribed by the
Minister, whether taking place inside or outside Singapore;
"starting prices" , in relation to any event, means the odds ruling at the
scene of the event immediately before the start;
"totalisator odds" means the odds paid on bets made by means of a
totalisator at the scene of the event;
"winnings" includes winnings of any kind in money.
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Duty on betting and sweepstakes
3. ?1) A duty shall be charged in respect of any betting on a totalisator,
pari-mutuel or in any other system or method of cash or credit betting held,
promoted, organised, administered or operated by an exempt organisation
specified by order in the Gazette by the Minister.
(2) A duty shall be charged on every sweepstake promoted by an exempt
organisation specified by order in the Gazette by the Minister on the result
of a horse race or other race whether the race takes place in Singapore or
elsewhere.
(3) The Minister may, by order in the Gazette, prescribe the rate of any
duty charged under this section or section 4 (including the basis to which
the rate shall apply), and may prescribe different rates and bases of duty
for different classes of betting or sweepstakes.
Sports betting duty
4. ?1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, there shall be charged a
sports betting duty in respect of any betting at fixed odds on any football
game or sporting event where the betting is promoted in Singapore by or on
behalf of any exempt organisation specified by order in the Gazette by the
Minister.
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(2) Deleted by Act 14/2005, wef 01/04/2005.
(3) Deleted by Act 14/2005, wef 01/04/2005.
(4) Deleted by Act 14/2005, wef 01/04/2005.
(5) Deleted by Act 14/2005, wef 01/04/2005.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a bet is a bet at fixed odds only if
the person making it knows or can know, at the time he makes it, the amount
he will win, except in so far as the amount is to depend ?br>
(a) on the result of the event or events betted on;
(b) on any such event taking place or producing a result;
(c) on the numbers taking part in any such event;
(d) on the starting prices or totalisator odds for any such event;
(e) on there being totalisator odds for any such event; or
(f) on the time when his bet is received by any person with or through whom
the bet is made.
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Exemption
5. The Minister may, in his discretion and subject to such conditions as he
may think fit, exempt any sweepstake or betting held, promoted, organised,
administered or operated by any exempt organisation from all or any of the
provisions of this Act.
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Keeping of accounts and delivery of statement by promoter
6. ?1) The promoter of any betting or sweepstake referred to in section 3
or 4 shall ?br>
(a) keep such books of accounts in respect of such betting or sweepstake as
may be prescribed and shall enter in these books true and regular accounts
of all moneys received by the promoter in respect of the betting or
sweepstake and all costs, charges and expenses incurred by the promoter in
promoting the betting or sweepstake;
(b) draw up a statement showing the following:
(i) the amount of stakes on all bets received in respect of each horse race,
football game or sporting event, or other contingency in other forms of
betting;
(ii) in the case of a sweepstake, the amount contributed to each sweepstake;
(iii) the amount of goods and services tax charged on the supply of the
betting or sweepstake transaction;
(iv) where the promoter has received or negotiated bets at fixed odds on any
football game or sporting event, the value in money of the winnings paid by
or on behalf of the promoter on the results of the game or sporting event;
and
(v) such other particulars as the Minister may, by order in the Gazette,
prescribe; and
(c) pay to the Commissioner the amount of duty so chargeable in respect of
the betting or sweepstake in Singapore dollar.
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(2) The Minister may, by order in the Gazette, prescribe the time within
which a statement referred to in subsection (1) (b) shall be delivered and
the duty so chargeable shall be paid to the Commissioner.
(3) The Commissioner may in any case or class of cases, as he thinks fit,
extend the time within which the statement under subsection (1) (b) and the
duty chargeable shall be delivered and paid to the Commissioner.
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Production of documents
7. The Commissioner may, at all reasonable times, require the production of
any books, accounts, vouchers or other documents relating to any totalisator,
pari-mutuel or sweepstake or betting promoted by any exempt organisation
specified by order under section 3 (1) or (2) or 4 (1).
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Duty payable to be a debt due to Government
8. The duty required to be paid under this Act shall be a debt due to the
Government and may be recovered as such.
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Sweepstake open to public
9. Any person may buy a ticket or chance or take part in a sweepstake held,
promoted, organised, administered or operated by any exempt organisation
specified by order under section 3 (2) notwithstanding that he is not a
member of that exempt organisation.
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Penalty
10. ?1) If the promoter fails to deliver the statement within the time
prescribed by section 6 (2) to the Commissioner as provided in section 6, he
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine
not exceeding $500.
(2) If the promoter, with intent to evade the duty chargeable under this
Act, fails to deliver the statement to the Commissioner as provided in
section 6 or delivers such statement which is false in any material
particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on
conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or 4 times the amount of the duty
payable, whichever is higher.
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Composition of offences
11. ?1) The Commissioner may, in his discretion, compound ?br>
(a) an offence under section 10 (1) by collecting from a person reasonably
suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding $250; or
(b) an offence under section 10 (2) by collecting from a person reasonably
suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding double the
amount of duty payable or $5,000, whichever is less.
(2) On payment of such sum of money, no further proceedings shall be taken
against that person in respect of the offence.
(3) All sums collected under this section shall be paid into the
Consolidated Fund.
LEGISLATION HISTORY
1 Ordinance 40 of 1950 ?Betting and Sweepstake Duties Ordinance 1950
Date of First Reading : 18.7.50 (Published on 21.7.50)
Date of Second and Third Readings : 21.11.50
Date of commencement : 22.11.50
2 Ordinance 3 of 1952 ?Betting and Sweepstake Duties (Amendment) Ordinance
1952
Date of First Reading : 18.12.51 (Published on 21.12.51)
Date of Second and Third Readings : 20.2.52
Date of commencement : 5.3.52
3 Ordinance 4 of 1953 ?Betting and Sweepstake Duties (Amendment) Ordinance
1953
Date of First Reading : 16.12.52 (Bill No. 46/52 published on 19.12.52)
Date of Second and Third Readings : 25.2.53
Date of commencement : 6.3.53
4 Ordinance 33 of 1956 ?Betting and Sweepstake Duties (Amendment) Ordinance
1956
Date of First, Second and Third Readings : 7.11.56
Date of commencement : 12.11.56
5 Ordinance 71 of 1959 ?Transfer of Powers Ordinance 1959
Date of First Reading : 22.9.59 (Bill No. 30/59 published on 30.9.59)
Date of Second and Third Readings : 11.11.59
Date of commencement : 20.11.59
6 Ordinance 31 of 1960 ?Betting and Sweepstake Duties (Amendment) Ordinance
1960
Date of First Reading : 6.4.60 (Bill No. 75/60 published on 22.4.60)
Date of Second and Third Readings : 12.5.60
Date of commencement : 20.5.60
7 Act 39 of 1966 ?Betting and Sweepstake Duties (Amendment) Act 1966
Date of First, Second and Third Readings : 26.10.66
Date of commencement : 1.11.66
8 Act 10 of 1981 ?Betting and Sweepstake Duties (Amendment) Act 1981
Date of First Reading : 15.6.81 (Bill No. 11/81 published on 22.6.81)
Date of Second and Third Readings : 21.7.81
Date of commencement : 1.4.81
9 Act 31 of 1993 ?Goods and Services Tax Act 1993
(Consequential amendments made by)
Date of First Reading : 26.2.93 (Bill No. 14/93 published on 27.2.93)
Date of Second Reading : 19.3.93
Referred to Select Committee : Parl 4 of 1993 presented to Parliament on
7.9.93
Date of Third Reading : 12.10.93
Date of commencement : 26.11.93 (except para (3) of Fifth Schedule) 1.4.94 (para
(3) of Fifth Schedule)
10 Act 14 of 1999 ?Betting and Sweepstake Duties (Amendment) Act 1999
Date of First Reading : 26.2.99 (Bill No. 10/99 published on 27.2.99)
Date of Second and Third Readings : 18.3.99
Date of commencement : 31.3.99
COMPARATIVE TABLE
The following provisions in the 1985 Revised Edition of the Betting and
Sweepstake Duties Act have been renumbered by the Law Revision Commissioners
in this 1999 Revised Edition.
This Comparative Table is provided for the convenience of users. It is not
part of the Betting and Sweepstake Duties Act.
1999 Ed. 1985 Ed.
2 2A?(7) and 4 (4)
3 2
4 2A
5 3
6 4
7 5
8 6
9 7
10 8
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