Irish Horseracing Industry 1994

Regulations for payment of levies on course bets.

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55.(1) The Authority may make regulations for securing the payment of levies F57[or charges under this Part] and generally for carrying the provisions in relation to levies F57[or charges under this Part] into effect and in particular for—

(a) requiring authorised bookmakers who are liable to pay levies F57[or charges under this Part]

(i) to enter, in the prescribed manner and at the prescribed time, particulars of all course bets in the prescribed records,

(ii) to retain such records for the prescribed time,

(iii) to send, on the request of the Authority, such records to the Authority,

(iv) to furnish copies of such records to the Authority at such time or times as may be prescribed,

(b) entering into arrangements by the Authority with (and taking security from) authorised bookmakers desiring to pay levies F57[or charges under this Part] on the basis of returns furnished by them,

(c) the granting to authorised bookmakers by the Authority of remissions or refunds (as the case may require) of a levy F57[or a charge under this Part] in cases in which the whole or any part of the contingent liability of a bookmaker in respect of a bet made, laid or otherwise entered into by him is shown to the satisfaction of the Authority to have been transferred to another bookmaker by means of a fresh bet made, laid or otherwise entered into by the first-mentioned bookmaker with the second-mentioned bookmaker.

(2) A person who, without reasonable cause, contravenes any regulations made under subsection (1) may have any permit granted to him under section 48 suspended or revoked by the Authority.

(3) A person shall comply with any regulation made under this section and shall not make, in any record kept in pursuance of any regulation under this section, any false entry with regard to a course bet.

Annotations:

Amendments:

F57

Inserted (25.07.1999) by Horse and Greyhound Racing (Betting Charges and Levies) Act 1999 (24/1999), s. 4(2)(a), (b), S.I. No. 211 of 1999, art. 2.

Editorial Notes:

E34

Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (27.09.1998) by Racecourses (Payment of Levies on Course Bets) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. No. 570 of 1998), in effect as per reg. 1(b).

E35

Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (1.01.1998) by Racecourses (Payment of Levies on Course Bets) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. No. 494 of 1997), in effect as per reg. 1(b).

E36

Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (28.10.1995) by Racecourses (Payment of Levies on Course Bets) Regulations 1995 (S.I. No. 306 of 1995), in effect as per reg. 1(b).