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Tax on totalizator and payment thereof (1) There shall be charged, levied and paid to the Government, out of all moneys paid into any totalizator by way of stakes or bets, a totalizator tax at the prescribed percentage, not exceeding twenty per cent, of every sum so paid. (2) The stewards shall issue a ticket for each stake or bet received into the totalizator. .(3) The tax shall be collected by the stewards and shall be paid to the Government in manner prescribed. (4) The stewards shall keep accounts-in the prescribed form of all the moneys paid into the totalizator and, at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed, forward to the Commissioner, or any other officer authorized by him in this behalf, a return stating the total amount of all the moneys paid into the totalizator. 1[20. Licence for book-maker No person shall act as a book-maker unless he obtains a licence from the Commissioner in the form and manner prescribed after making payment of licence fee as notified by the Government from time to time.]