Section 21

makes or enters into a bet upon the result of a prescribed event, whereby he agrees to pay to the other party to the said bet, if the latter should win the bet, a sum of money the amount of which is dependent upon the result of the working of the totalisator on the said event;

sells or offers for sale, or who purchases from any person referred to in paragraph (a), any ticket, coupon, card or thing entitling or purporting to entitle the purchaser or holder thereof to any interest in the result of the working of the totalisator on any prescribed event; or

makes any contract or bargain of any kind to pay or receive money upon any event determined or to be determined by the result of the working of the totalisator on any prescribed event, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to both.

Subsection (1) shall not apply to the licensee or the Board or any officer, agent or employee of the licensee or the Board while engaged in the lawful conduct of any totalisator for pool betting or of pool betting as such in accordance with this Act, the licence issued under section 5 or an approved scheme.