Law for Partial Amendments to the Horse Racing Law
法令番号: 法律第198号
公布年月日: 昭和24年6月6日
法令の形式: 法律

審議経過

I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Horse Racing Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This sixth day of the sixth month of the twenty-fourth year of Showa (June 6, 1949)
Prime Minister　YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law No.198
Law for Partial Amendments to the Horse Racing Law
The Horse Racing Law (Law No.158 of 1948) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Art.3 par.1 "twice a year" and "thrice a year" and in par.2 of the same Article "four times a year" shall be amended as "thrice a year," "four times a year" and "six times a year" respectively.
The proviso to par.1, and par.3 of Art.4 shall be deleted.
In Art.6 "and forecasting systems," shall be amended as "forecasting and double winning systems."
The following two paragraphs shall be added after Art.7 par.5:
6　In the double winning system, the set combining the horses of the first arrival in two or move races on the same day shall be the winning horse.
7　In the double winning system when there are seven or more horses to be started in any of the races of the set in respect to the betting concerned, the double winning system ballot number may be placed on starters in accordance with the example of pars.4 and 5.
In Art.8 par.2 "the preceding paragraph" shall be amended as "the preceding two paragraphs;" the same paragraph shall be par.3;and the following paragraph shall be added as par.2:
2　When calculating the dividend in accordance with the provision of the preceding paragraph, should there be any winning horse for which there is no winner of betting, such horse shall not be deemed the winning horse in respect to the said calculation.
The following one Article shall be added after Art.11:
(Appropriation of the Revenues for the Promotion of Live-Stock Industry)
Article 11-(2).　The Government shall appropriate an expenditure for the promotion of live-stock industry out of the revenues accruing from the sale of the betting tickets, the amount of which is to be equivalent to one third of the balance of the total sum of proceeds from the sale of the betting tickets after deducting the total amount of dividends and refund moneys.
2　In applying the provision of the preceding paragraph, the calculation of the amount shall be made for each fiscal year basing on the estimated amount in the budget of the fiscal year.
Art.12 shall be amended as follows:
(Invalidity of the Betting Ticket)
Article 12.　In the winning, placing and forecasting system, if, after the betting ticket has been sold, the case which comes under any of the following items has occurred in respect to the race concerned, the betting on the said race shall be null and void:
(2)　The case that the race has not been materialized;
(3)　The case that there has been no winning horse in the race in respect to the betting system concerned.
2　In the double winning system, if, after the betting ticket has been sold, the case which comes under any of the following items has occurred, such betting shall be null and void:
(1)　The case that the number of starters in each of the races combined to a set in the betting has been reduced to only one, or the number of starters in any of the said races has been reduced to none;
(2)　The case that any of the races combined to a set in the betting has not been materialized;
(3)　The case that there has been no winning horse in the betting.
3　In case the horse indicated in the betting ticket which has been sold, has not started (in the case of the forecasting and the double winning systems, the combination to which such horse belongs), the betting ticket on such horse shall be null and void. The same shall apply with respect to the betting ticket on the set of horses indicated by the same ballot number in case where only one of the horses so indicated has started in the race in the forecasting system.
4　In case the whole or a part of the proceeds of the betting tickets sold to the persons other than entrants has been unable to sum up with the proceeds of the betting tickets sold to the entrants, owing to natural calamity or other unavoidable reason, the betting tickets of the persons other than the entrants which have been unable to sum up shall be null and void.
5　In the case of the four preceding paragraphs, the holder of the betting ticket concerned may claim of the Government the refund of the amount of money of its face value in exchange to the said betting ticket.
6　The right of claim must be exercised within one year from the date of the sale of the betting ticket concerned.
The following one item shall be added after item (2) of par.2 of Art.13:
(3)　Any person who has ever been condemned to a heavier penalty than one year's penal servitude.
In Art.20 par.3 "the preceding two paragraphs" shall be amended as "the preceding seven paragraphs;" the same paragraph shall be par.8;and the following five paragraphs shall be added after par.2:
3　The number of the race meetings to be held by the union consisting of To, Do, Fu or prefecture and the designated cities, towns or villages in the same To, Do, Fu or prefecture in a year at a race track shall not exceed the number totalling twice the number of the designated cities, towns or villages joining the union, plus 4.(In case To, Do, Fu or prefecture and the designated cities, towns or villages joining the union have held race meetings prior to the joining in the year at the track, the number of such race meetings shall be deducted from the said total number).
4　The number of the race meetings to be held by the union of the preceding paragraph in a year shall not exceed the number totalling twice the number of the designated cities, towns or villages joining the union and 4 times the number of the race tracks of the union.
(In case To, Do, Fu or prefecture and the designated cities, towns or villages joining the union have held race meetings prior to their joining in the year, the number of such race meetings shall be deducted from the said total number).　5
The number of the race meetings to be held in a year by the union of the designated cities, towns or villages in the same To, Do, Fu or prefecture shall not exceed twice the number of the designated cities, towns or villages joining the union.(In case any designated cities, towns or villages joining the union have held race meetings prior to the joining in the year, the number of such race meetings shall be deducted from the said limitation number).　6
The number of the race meetings to be held at a race track by To, Do, Fu or prefecture which has ceased to be the consisting member of the union of par.3 in the year of its ceasing to be the member, shall not exceed four times, together with the race meetings which has been held by the union at the track in the year.　7
The number of the race meetings to be held by the designated city, town or village which has ceased to be the consisting member of the union of par.3 or par.5 in the year of its ceasing to be the member, shall not exceed twice, together with the race meeting which has been held by the union in the year. The proviso to Art.21 shall be deleted.
In par.1 of Art.23 "or the designated cities, towns or villages concerned" and "or the designated cities, towns or villages" shall be added respectively after the words "the prefecture" and "the prefecture concerned."
In Art.24, "fairness of the race of the meeting" shall be amended as "fairness of racing."
In Art.25 par.1, "the prefecture" shall be amended as "To, Do, Fu or prefecture, or designated city, town or village."
In Art.30, "one hundred thousand yen" shall be amended as "five hundred thousand yen" and the following one item shall be added after item (2) of the same Article:
(3)　Any person who has aimed at profit by making someone do an act similar to the betting with respect to the National Horse Racing or the Local Horce Racing.
In Art.31, "fifty thousand yen" shall be amended as "three hundred thousand yen" and item (1) of the same Article shall be amended as follows:
(1)　Deleted.
The following one item shall be added after Item (2) of Art.31:
(3)　Any jockey who did not display the full ability of his horse in racing with a view to gaining or letting someone gain any financial profit in respect to the race.
In Art.33, "twenty thousand yen" shall be amended as "one hundred thousand yen" and in item (2) of the same Article "Art.31, par.1" shall be amended as "Art.30, item (3)."
In Art.34, "one thousand yen" shall be amended as "fifty thousand yen."
In Art.40, "the day when full one year has elapsed from the day of its enforcement" shall be amended as "March 31, 1950."
Supplementary Provisions:
1.　This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
2.　In case any person who is actually registered as a horse owner on the day of enforcement of this Law comes under item (3) of Art.13, his registration shall be cancelled.
3.　The Law concerning the Special Account for State-Operated Horse Racing (Law No.42 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 4, "Article 12, paragraphs 2 and 4" shall be amended as "Article 12, paragraph 5."
4.　With respect to the application of the penal provisions to an act committed prior to the enforcement of this Law, previous examples shall be followed.
Minister of Finance　IKEDA Hayato
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry　MORI Kotaro
Prime Minister　YOSHIDA Shigeru