RACE MEETINGS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 695, 21 December 1909, Page 3

RACE MEETINGS.

: rANEW/GOyEENMENT v-:;-:>; The KacoM'eetings Bill, introduced yostcrday,,: is to come- intb : effect, if; passed, on ■; April •X v next. Nothing l in. the Bill shall apply to 'club* ■ authorised to use • tho totalisatov. No horse* ';\ -racing shall.'tike .place oxcopt under a cluii ■• licensed under tbojjill. Any such lioonso may, Uo granted Subject *-'to such conditions as the Minister thinks fit' 'with , , respect' to thtf : number, character, times, and places oi races, and as tb their managomont aad con«.. trol. TJie Minister may at. any time,: bj Gazotte notico, revoke any such . liconso fo* .; any reason which ho dooms sufficient. ..A fine of J3O, or thr-x) months' imraisonmbntyi*'. 5, prorided for any person (a) wlk> procures per* mits, authorises, or conducts any illognl racing; (b) who (not boing a constaljlo acting ip • tlio course of his duty) is present on any race* ', -course or'other place tor the purpose,of Wring l part, whether,as a, spectator or in any,other, mnnnor whatsooycr, in' any 1 illegal racing thenr ■ taking place or about to take l)lace; or.(c) -v who liistigatcs, incites, aids, abets, or attompts ' ; to conißiit 'any olfcneo against this section■ If tlio ofTeiijdor is n body corporate, the offence ■ shall bo; pnnishablo on summary; convictiof by a fino of ■ i6200i-r A constablo may arrest "■■■■ without warrant imy iperson found by liiui committing any o£tcnco against tho last proccdv ing soction.: '"Racing club" is l interpreted-as ' nuy club,; or. otter: body: of persons Cwhethcr incorporated ;;or unincorporated), established; forrthe purposo'of, promotuig, conducting, or ' controlJing tho.Fport of horso-facing. iTlon©* '. •mo'i'inclade^a.t^ttinjijraco,' , - ■■ ■■ i \ ■■'>'•