Page 581 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 12 April 1994
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with ACTTAB to provide totalisator pooling and other betting support services to VITAB. I table that document as well, Madam Speaker, for the information of members.
There is one other matter that I would like to raise. Mrs Carnell made great sport out of a letter which was directed from me to Mr Neck on 22 October 1993 in relation to the seeking of my agreement to a contract with VITAB Ltd for the provision of betting services. She made great play of the issue that she claimed it was a direction from me and was therefore required to be tabled in this Assembly, but of course that is again part of the misleading campaign which is being run by the Liberals and has been run by the Liberals from the outset.
Let us not forget, Madam Speaker, that this all began when the Government moved to decorporatise ACTTAB. There was much wailing and screaming from those opposite, and I trust that their judgment will not be impaired merely as a consequence of their opposition to that first move. I trust that their judgment will not be impaired merely as a consequence of the Government's decision to move down that path. From that day forward, you have been antagonistic towards ACTTAB and any of its achievements. Section 7 of the Betting (Totalizator Administration) Act 1964 states:
(1) The functions of the Board are -
(a) to conduct or provide totalizator betting services -
(I) in respect of races and other sporting events held within or outside the Territory - by operating its own totalizator; and
(ii) by agreement with a body in a State or another Territory that is authorised by a law of that State or other Territory to conduct or provide off-course totalizator betting in that State or Territory;
(b) to conduct lotteries;
(c) to act as an agent of the person conducting a lottery for the sale of tickets, or shares in tickets, in a lottery; and -
listen to this one -
(d) with the written approval of the Minister, to provide other services relating to betting.
(2) In addition to the functions of the Board under subsection (1), the Board has such other functions and duties as are conferred on it under this or any other Act.
Let us go back to (d), which says:
with the written approval of the Minister, to provide other services relating to betting.
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