Section 2
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“agency” includes subagency;
“agent” means an agent licensed under an approved scheme and includes a subagent so licensed;
“approved scheme” means a scheme for the operation, promotion or management of totalisator for pool betting or of pool betting as such, the collection of pool betting and the establishment of pool betting agencies for the time being approved by the Minister pursuant to section 16;
“Board” means the Board established under section 6;
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“licensee” means the person issued with a licence under section 5;
“Minister” means the Minister of Finance;
“pool betting” means a bet made by means of a totalisator situated in or outside Malaysia in respect of any prescribed event;
“prescribed event” means football matches or a series of such matches held in or outside Malaysia and any other event in respect of which it is prescribed under this Act that totalisator investments may be received;
“totalisator” means the contrivance for betting known as the totalisator or parimutuel, or any other machine or instrument of betting of a like nature, whether mechanically operated or not.