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In 'this chapter:- (1) "backer" includes any person with whom a licensed bookmaker bets; (2) "bet" includes " wager" and "betting" includes wagering; (3) "liccnscd:·bookmakcr" means any person who carries on the business or vocation of or acts as a bookmaker or turf commission agent under a license or permit issuer! by any racing club or bv the stewards thereof to enable him to carry on his business or vocation as specified in the license or. permit; (4) "prescribed" means- prescribed by this chapter or by the rules made thereunder ; (5) "rac:ng club" include5 a club, aS;~ociation, society or body of persons corporate or incorporate- (a) formed for the purpose of promoting horse-racing or pony-racing or for holding race-meetings ; or (b) conducting or controlling such meetings ; (6) "totalisator" means a totalisator, in a:n enclosure which the stewards controlling a race-meeting have set apart and includes any instrument, machine, or contrivance known as the totalisator, or any other instrument, machine, or contrivance of a like nature or a ny scheme for enabling any number of persons to make bets with one another on the like principles. Tax on