Racing Industry Amendment Bill
This bill changes the rules around betting in New Zealand. It makes it illegal for anyone other than TAB NZ (the government-owned betting organisation) to offer betting to people in New Zealand, including overseas companies. It also scraps a fee that foreign betting companies used to pay, adds new rules to protect gamblers from harm, and gives the government more power to oversee how TAB NZ operates. People who place bets with offshore companies won't be personally prosecuted.
What this affects
Tap a topic to see how this bill touches it — with the parts of the text it’s based on.
The bill scraps a fee that overseas betting companies had to pay to operate in New Zealand, and bans those companies from offering bets to New Zealanders at all.
No person other than TAB NZ may offer racing betting, sports betting, or other racing or sports betting (or any combination of those forms of betting) to a person in New Zealand.
Sections 113 to 117 and cross-heading above section 113 repealed
The Racing Industry (Offshore Betting—Consumption Charges) Regulations 2021 (LI 2021/167) are revoked.
Progress through Parliament
Have your say
Submissions open once a bill reaches the select committee stage. In the meantime, you can write to your local MP about it.
Write to your MPBill text sourced from legislation.govt.nz (Parliamentary Counsel Office). Arapono’s summary and breakdown are drafted with AI grounded in that official text and reviewed by an Arapono editor for accuracy and neutrality before publishing. Arapono is non-partisan and takes no position on this bill.