Betting (Singapore Totalisator Board — Exemption) (Amendment) Notification 2019

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 07 Jan 2019

No. S 20

Betting Act

(CHAPTER 21)

Betting
(Singapore Totalisator Board — Exemption)
(Amendment) Notification 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22(1) of the Betting Act, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification is the Betting (Singapore Totalisator Board — Exemption) (Amendment) Notification 2019 and is deemed to have come into operation on 27 December 2010.

Amendment of paragraph 2

2. Paragraph 2 of the Betting (Singapore Totalisator Board — Exemption) Notification 2004 (G.N. No. S 239/2004) is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub‑paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub‑paragraphs:

“(1) The Singapore Totalisator Board and its officers are exempt from the provisions of the Act in respect of —

(a)	the promotion, organisation, administration, operation or conduct of any betting in connection with any of the events mentioned in sub‑paragraph (2);
(b)	the promotion, organisation, administration, operation or conduct of any betting in connection with any horse‑racing in Singapore or overseas;
(c)	the establishment, promotion, organisation, administration, operation or conduct of any totalisator; and
(d)	the establishment or operation of any totalisator agency.

(1A) The Singapore Turf Club and its officers and authorised agents are exempt from the provisions of the Act in respect of —

(a)	the promotion, organisation, administration, operation or conduct of any betting in connection with any horse‑racing in Singapore or overseas; and
(b)	the promotion, organisation, administration, operation or conduct of any totalisator, that is undertaken for or on behalf of the Singapore Totalisator Board.

(1B) The Singapore Pools (Private) Limited and its officers and authorised agents are exempt from the provisions of the Act in respect of the promotion, organisation, administration, operation or conduct of any betting in connection with any of the events mentioned in sub‑paragraph (2).”;

(b)

by deleting the words “The exemption under sub‑paragraph (1) shall apply in respect of any betting done in connection with” in sub‑paragraph (2) and substituting the words “For the purposes of sub‑paragraphs (1)(a) and (1B), the events are”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “sub‑paragraph (1)” in sub‑paragraph (3), the words “, (1A) or (1B)”.

[G.N. Nos. S 698/2004; S 434/2005; S 69/2008]

Made on 7 January 2019.

LAI CHUNG HAN

Second Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/086-Vol-0001-TF-0001; AG/LEGIS/SL/21/2015/1 Vol. 1]

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