Racing Industry Act 2020

Betting and TAB venues - TAB venues - Regulations relating to TAB NZ operations

98: Regulations relating to harm prevention and minimisation

You could also call this:

“Rules to help keep people safe when betting on races and sports”

The Governor-General can make rules about how TAB NZ (the organisation that runs betting on racing and sports in New Zealand) should operate to prevent and reduce harm from gambling. These rules can cover:

How TAB venues should be set up and furnished.

What information TAB NZ needs to give people about betting on races and sports at their venues.

Rules for responsible advertising of betting, racecourses, and TAB venues.

Training that TAB NZ must give to staff who supervise betting, to help them recognise problem gambling.

Systems or processes related to betting, like whether TAB venues can have ATMs.

Any other rules to help prevent or reduce harm from gambling.

These rules are called “secondary legislation”, which means they are published in a special way that the Legislation Act 2019 explains.

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Part 4 Betting and TAB venues
TAB venues: Regulations relating to TAB NZ operations

98Regulations relating to harm prevention and minimisation

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. prescribing requirements for the design, layout, and furnishing of a TAB venue:
    1. prescribing the information or messages that TAB NZ must provide to persons about racing betting and sports betting at the venue:
      1. prescribing codes requiring the advertising of racing betting, sports betting, racecourses, and TAB venues to be responsible:
        1. requiring TAB NZ to provide problem gambling awareness training for employees involved in supervising racing betting and sports betting at TAB venues:
          1. prescribing systems or processes ancillary to racing betting and sports betting, including the availability of automatic teller machines at a TAB venue:
            1. prescribing any other requirements relating to harm prevention or minimisation.
              1. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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              • Section 98(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).