2272
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 81

(c) Prohibited Persons—No person who is prohibited from entering upon the premises of a totalisator agency by virtue of regulations made under the Act may himself, or through his agent invest at or through a totalisator agency, and no person acting in breach of this rule shall be entitled to a refund of any amount paid by him or to any dividend which otherwise would be payable thereon.

(d) Unit of Investment—The unit of investment for win and place betting shall be $1 and for doubles betting 50 cents.

(e) Dividends—The dividend for an investment of 50 cents will be a half of the dividend declared on the totalisator for an investment of $1 except that fractions of 10 cents shall not be paid unless such fraction exceeds 5 cents in which case 5 cents shall be paid.

(f) Brackets and Alterations Thereto—Subject to the special provisions of rule 10B relating to investments on the doubles totalisator, in so far as they may apply, the following provisions shall apply to investments made on any horse included in a bracket:

(i) Where horses are bracketed on the totalisator all investments received by the Board in respect of any such horse or horses will be invested on the totalisator number of the bracket containing such horse or horses irrespective of the bracketing in the official race card or in notices as exhibited by the Board pursuant to rule 5 (f) :

(ii) Where a horse in such bracket is scratched, the investments shall remain on the horse or horses remaining in the said bracket, except that when the investments received by the Board on the horse or horses that are scratched can be identified and withheld or withdrawn from the totalisator, a refund will be made of such investments and the investors thereof shall have no interest in the dividend that may be payable in respect of the horse or horses remaining in the said bracket. Where such scratching is made at such time or in such manner that the investments cannot be recovered from the totalisator, they shall remain invested on the bracket:

(iii) Where the Board exhibits in its notices a bracket, but the horses shown in the bracket are allotted separate numbers on the totalisator, then all investments received by the Board on such horses so shown as a bracket or any of them shall be refunded and the investors thereof shall have no interest in the dividend or dividends that may be payable in respect of such horses.

(g) Rejection of Investments—The person in charge at any totalisator agency, unless otherwise directed by the Board or the General Manager of the Board, shall be entitled to reject at any time and without giving any reason therefor part or all of any investment.

(h) Refund of Investments—(i) Scratchings: Subject to the provisions of rule 10B herein relating to investments on the doubles totalisator, if a horse, including a bracketed horse, is scratched, the investor may at his option nominate a substitute or apply for and receive a refund at the totalisator agency where the investment was made, up to 15 minutes before the time of closing for the receipt of investments for the race concerned at that agency. If the investor does not nominate a substitute or apply for and receive a refund as aforesaid he shall nevertheless be entitled to a refund of his investment, subject, however, in the case of bracketed horses, to the provisions of rule 4 (f) (ii).

(ii) No Place Pool: Amounts received for transmission and investment on the place totalisator for any race will be refunded if by reason of the number of starters the place totalisator is not operated for that race.

(i) Minors—Investments by or on behalf of persons under the age of twenty-one (21) years will not be accepted.

(j) Race Meetings for Which Investments Will be Accepted—Investments at or through any totalisator agency will be accepted only for such race meetings or races as the Board from time to time shall direct in respect of any such totalisator agency.

(k) Investments Received on Meetings Subsequently Postponed—(i) All investments received in respect of a race meeting which is postponed to a later date will be retained by the Board and will be invested on that later date in accordance with the original instructions.

(ii) No refund of such investments will be made unless application is received at the totalisator agency where the investment was made not later than the time which is there specified as the closing time for the race concerned on such later date.

(iii) In the event of a race meeting being abandoned all investments will be refunded.

The provisions of this paragraph shall apply to all investments whether by cash, by telephone, or by post.

(l) Method of Investing—Investments will be accepted:

(i) by cash payment at a totalisator agency; or

(ii) subject to the provisions of rule 7 hereof by telephone instructions against a telephone deposit account previously established or against dividends and refunds credited to such deposit account; or

(iii) subject to the provisions of rule 8 hereof by postal instructions accompanied by a cash remittance.

Investments or instructions by telegraph will not be accepted under any circumstances.

(m) Failure to Record Investments on the Totalisator—Subject to the application of any other rule in the circumstances of the case, where details of an investment otherwise properly received have not been recorded on the totalisator owing to a failure in the means of or error in transmission or to other circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Board, there shall be paid on such investment if for win or for place the same dividend as is payable on course for a like investment or, if such investment be for the doubles totalisator, such dividend as is payable pursuant to the provisions of rule 10 C herein.

5. Provisions Relating to Investments by Cash

(a) Cash investments will be accepted only during the hours advertised at each totalisator agency for the acceptance of such investments, but the person in charge of such totalisator agency may declare at any time that the office is closed for receiving cash investments.

(b) Only bank notes or coins or such other instruments for payment of money as the Board may determine from time to time shall be accepted.

(c) Before an investment will be accepted the investor must indicate clearly the race meeting, the race, the horse code number or numbers, the amount of the investment and whether for win, place or double, and such other information as may be required to identify the investment to be made.

(d) On acceptance of the investment, investors will be issued with a written or printed ticket which must be presented when claiming any dividend or refund due in respect of such investment.

(e) Tickets will show the amount invested in dollars or dollar units for win and place and in dollars or dollar units and/or fractions of a dollar and/or in cents for doubles and may likewise show the total amount invested and/or such other information as may be necessary to identify the investment recorded.

Tickets will be printed, written, stamped, punched or marked to show the code letters or abbreviation designated for the race meeting concerned, the date or week designated for such meeting, the number of the race concerned other than for a double, and the code number allocated by the totalisator agency to the horse or horses on which the investment is made.

(f) (i) Notices shall be exhibited at all totalisator agencies showing the horses known to be accepted for those race meetings for which the Board will be receiving investments, the date and code letter or abbreviation of each such race meeting, the numbers of races and the code numbers allotted to the horses therein, including known brackets, and the distinguishing mark of any double or other combination of races or form of investment as may be necessary for the proper identification of investments.

(ii) Investments shall be receivable in respect of only those races and meetings and the horses accepted therefor for which such notices are exhibited.

(iii) Notwithstanding anything in clause (g) herein, where a ticket has been issued and there is recorded thereon the wrong race number or in respect of the meeting either the wrong date or the wrong designation for such meeting or either of such particulars is omitted, the Board in its sole discretion may, if it is satisfied that such record or omission is an error and it is manifest that the investment was intended for a particular race or meeting, treat the investment as intended for that race or meeting and the investment shall be deemed to be made accordingly.

(g) (i) Subject to the following provisions of this clause the investor shall be deemed to accept the ticket issued to him unless he applies forthwith after issue thereof to have any error or omission rectified.

(ii) Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding sub-clause (iii) herein, if the investment as indicated on the ticket is one which cannot be recorded on the totalisator or is one for which notices are not exhibited at the agency in accordance with clause (f) herein at the time the ticket is issued, the investor shall be entitled only to a refund.

(iii) Where the ticket is issued for a doubles investment and in respect of the second race of such double there is either no horse code number recorded or the number recorded is not one included on the totalisator, the investor shall be deemed to accept the ticket as issued and in the event of the horse selected winning the first race of the double the Board will place the investment in the second race of the double on the favourite as would be determined in accordance with the provisions of rule 10B (ii) and the investor shall be entitled only to such dividend if any as may be derived therefrom.

(iv) Subject to the provisions of the last preceding sub-clause (iii) and rule 5 (f) (iii), where the ticket is incomplete as to any of the required particulars or the ticket or any of the required particulars thereon are in the opinion of the Board ambiguous, the investor shall be entitled only to a refund.

(v) If the ticket is issued and the details of amounts of individual investments recorded thereon do not agree with the recorded total of the amounts on the ticket, the details shall prevail and the ticket shall be treated accordingly.

(h) Any ticket, when presented for a dividend or refund or for the correction of an alleged error, may be rejected without any payment made thereon if it has been altered or defaced.