Any Justice who is satisfied on oath that there is reason to suspect that any premises are kept or used as a common gaming-house, and that the premises are believed by the deponent to be so kept or used, may in his discretion, by special warrant under his hand in the form in the Second Schedule to this Act, authorize any constable to enter into the premises with such assistants as may be necessary, and if necessary to use force for making such entry, whether by breaking open doors or otherwise, and to arrest, search, and bring before any two Justices all persons found on the premises, and to seize all tables and instruments of gaming, moneys, and securities found there, and also to seize any thing found there which is evidence of an offence against this Act having been or being about to be committed.

Any constable entering into any premises pursuant to a warrant under this section may search all parts of the premises where he suspects that there may be any table or instrument of gaming or any thing which is evidence as aforesaid, and may search all persons whom he finds on the premises, and may seize any such table or instrument or thing as aforesaid and any moneys or securities found on the premises.

The Justices before whom any person is charged with an offence against this Act may direct that any table or instrument of gaming or any other thing, not being moneys or any security for moneys, that has been seized pursuant to a warrant under this section, and that is evidence in respect of the charge, shall be destroyed.”

The business or occupation of a bookmaker is hereby declared to be unlawful.

Every person who carries on the business or occupation of a bookmaker commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction—

Notwithstanding anything in subsection four of section twenty-five of the Crimes Act 1908, or in subsection one of section twenty-seven of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924 (as amended by section fourteen of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1952), it shall not be competent for the Court by which any person is convicted of a second or subsequent offence under this section to sentence the defendant to pay a fine instead of sentencing him to a term of imprisonment.”

Every racing club, hunt club, or trotting club using the totalizator at any race meeting held on or after the first day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and before the first day of November nineteen hundred and sixty, shall in respect of each race held at that race meeting deduct, by way of levy, from all investments registered on the totalizator for that race, including any investments received at any totalizator agency and registered as aforesaid, an amount equal to a half per cent of the aggregate amount of those investments, and shall in accordance with this section pay the amount so deducted—

The amount to be deducted under subsection one of this section shall be calculated to the nearest penny or, where the amount includes a halfpenny, to the next penny above.

Every deduction under this section shall be in addition to the deduction of twelve and a half per cent authorized to be made in the calculation of dividends for the purposes of section thirty-five of the principal Act and section one hundred and ninety-three of the Stamp Duties Act 1923, and those sections shall accordingly be read subject to the provisions of this section.

All moneys payable to the New Zealand Racing Conference or the New Zealand Trotting Conference under this section in respect of any race meeting shall be paid to the Conference within seven days after the conclusion of that race meeting. If the club fails to pay any such moneys within the said period of seven days, or within such further time as may be agreed to by the Conference, the Conference may sue for and recover the moneys unpaid as a debt owing to it by the club.

All moneys paid to the New Zealand Racing Conference or the New Zealand Trotting Conference under this section shall be paid by the Conference into a separate account to be kept in the name of the Conference, and shall be used by the Conference,—

The separate account referred to in subsection five of this section shall be administered by the executive committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference or the New Zealand Trotting Conference, as the case may be, and that committee shall in its discretion determine to what clubs payments shall be made out of the account, the amounts that shall be paid, and, subject to the provisions of subsection five of this section, the purposes for which the payments may be applied, and the decision of the committee thereon shall be final.

Moneys paid pursuant to this section by any racing club or hunt club or trotting club to the New Zealand Racing Conference or the New Zealand Trotting Conference or by either of those Conferences to any such club shall be deemed not to be income for the purposes of the Land and Income Tax Act 1923 and Part IV of the Social Security Act 1938.”

No investment for transmission to the totalizator shall be received at any totalizator agency from any person under twenty-one years of age.

Every person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds who, being an officer, servant, or agent of the Board, knowingly receives or registers or takes into account at any totalizator agency any investment for transmission to the totalizator made by any person who is apparently under the age of twenty-one years, whether that investment is made by that person on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person.

Every person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two pounds who, being under the age of twenty-one years, makes any investment at any totalizator agency for transmission to the totalizator, whether that investment is made on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person.

Where any person appearing to be under the age of twenty-one years tenders at any totalizator agency any money, bank note, or cheque for the purpose of making an investment for transmission to the totalizator, any constable or any officer, servant, or agent of the Board may demand from that person particulars of his age, name, and address. If there is reasonable ground to suppose that any particulars so given by him are false, the person demanding the particulars may require him to supply satisfactory evidence of the correctness thereof.

Every person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds who, being required under this section to give particulars of his age, name, and address, fails to give those particulars, or gives any false particulars, or supplies any false evidence with respect thereto.

Where any person, being required under this section by any constable to give particulars of his age, name, and address or to supply satisfactory evidence of the correctness of any particulars given by him, fails to give those particulars or to supply that evidence, the constable shall caution him and, if he persists in that failure, may apprehend him without warrant and take him, as soon as practicable, before Justices to be dealt with according to law.”

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister of Internal Affairs after consultation by the Minister with the Totalizator Agency Board, make such regulations as in the opinion of the Governor-General are necessary or expedient for regulating the establishment and conduct of totalizator agencies.

All regulations made under this section shall be laid before Parliament within twenty-eight days after the making thereof if Parliament is then in session, and, if not, shall be laid before Parliament within twenty-eight days after the commencement of the next ensuing session.”