This Act may be cited as the Gaming Amendment Act (No. 2) 1968, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Gaming Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of August, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight (being the date of the commencement of the Gaming Amendment Act 1968).

Section 5a of the Gaming Amendment Act 1949 (as inserted by section 4 of the Gaming Amendment Act 1950) is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “such portion of the sum deducted by way of commission, pursuant to section thirty-five of the principal Act, from the amount of that investment as equals seven and a half percent of”, and substituting the words “the sum deducted by way of commission, pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of section 35 of the principal Act, from”.