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protection initiatives, including the treatment of moneys held in client betting accounts; administrative processes for the approval of totalisator rules on how betting accounts are managed and regulation-making powers; totalisator equipment approvals and standards similar to the Gaming Machine Act 2004 and relevant instruments; and provisions to ensure that the existing totalisator, ACTTAB, has a smooth transition to the new framework which provides that the existing licence approvals and finance provisions will continue.
The bill is in step with frameworks in other jurisdictions, particularly New South Wales and Victoria. It aims to maintain the integrity of gambling activities for the protection of users of gambling services, minimise harm to problem gamblers and other vulnerable people, and reduce the potential for criminal influence in the provision of gambling services.
To ensure consistency of the regulatory approach in the territory and in line with the general powers of the commission, the bill mirrors similar ACT regulatory functions within existing legislation to provide certainty to industry and the commission. The bill is part of the territory’s suite of racing and gaming regulation and will be applied in the context of the overarching Gambling and Racing Control Act 1999.
I want to thank the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety in their legislative scrutiny role for their review of the Totalisator Bill. When we get to the detail stage I will make some comments on the amendments. I now table the revised explanatory statement to the Totalisator Bill 2013.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MS BURCH (Brindabella—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Disability, Children and Young People, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Women, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for Racing and Gaming) (10.59): Pursuant to standing order 182A(c), I seek leave to move the amendments to the bill, that are in response to the comments made by the scrutiny committee, together.
Leave granted.
MS BURCH: I move amendments Nos 1 to 6 circulated in my name together [see schedule 1 at page 464]. I table a supplementary explanatory statement to the government amendments.
Clearly, I have carefully considered the comments made by the committee and in response I have tabled a number of government amendments to the bill, which I will address in turn.
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