Section 33: Race cards and fixtures

33. Race cards and fixtures (1) A totalisator operator, a bookmaker, a sweepstakes organiser or an operator of dart games shall, to use the race cards and fixtures of a horse racing organiser, pay to the horse racing organiser such amount as the Board may determine. (2) Where a totalisator operator, a bookmaker, a sweepstakes organiser or an operator of dart games has paid the amount required under subsection (1), the horse racing organiser shall not prevent the totalisator operator, bookmaker, sweepstakes organiser or operator of dart games from using its race cards and fixtures. (l) in section 44(4), by deleting the words “on local races” and “outside the racecourse”; (m) in section 53(4) – (i) by deleting the words “take out” and replacing them by the words “apply for”; Acts 2017 193 (ii) in paragraph (a), by deleting the words “collects stake money, pool coupons or other forms” and replacing them by the words “transacts pool betting activities”; (n) in section 93 – (i) by repealing paragraphs (b) and (c) and replacing them by the following paragraphs – (b) unless the person, or in the case of a company or other entity, any of its directors, managers, officers or any person having a direct or indirect beneficial interest in the company or entity, is a fit and proper person; (c) who has, within the 10 years preceding the date of application, convicted of any offence involving fraud or dishonesty or any other offence as may be prescribed, or is a company or entity of which the director, manager, officer or any other person having a direct or indirect beneficial interest has been so convicted; (ii) by inserting, after paragraph (c), the following new paragraph – (ca) where the person, or in the case of a company or other entity, any of its directors, managers, officers or any person having a direct or indirect beneficial interest in the company or entity, is under investigation for any offence of fraud or dishonesty or any other offence as may be prescribed; or 194 Acts 2017 (o) by inserting, after section 93, the following new sections –