📜 Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This Bill amends several Western Australian Acts related to gambling, including the Betting Control Act 1954, the Casino Control Act 1984, and the Gaming and Wagering Commission Act 1987. It aims to improve compliance and enforcement, streamline administrative arrangements, and address inconsistencies between state and commonwealth legislation.
Impact
Gambling operators, the Gaming and Wagering Commission, and the public are affected. The changes aim to strengthen regulation, increase penalties for non-compliance, and ensure consistency with national gambling policies.
Key Changes
Parliamentary Progress
- LA IntroducedLA14 Aug 2024
- LA Second Reading MovedLA14 Aug 2024
- LA Third ReadingLA24 Oct 2024
- LA Consideration in DetailLA24 Oct 2024
- LA Second Reading AgreedLA24 Oct 2024
- LC Second Reading MovedLC5 Nov 2024
- LC Third ReadingLC28 Nov 2024
- LC Second Reading AgreedLC28 Nov 2024
- Royal Assent6 Dec 2024
Penalty Provisions10 found
failure of a body corporate that holds a bookmaker’s licence to lodge notice of a person becoming or ceasing to be a person who occupies a position of authority
“Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $25 000.”
failure of a body corporate that holds a bookmaker’s licence to lodge an annual return
“Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $100 000.”
failure of a member of a partnership that holds a bookmaker’s licence to lodge notice of a person becoming or ceasing to be a member of the partnership
“Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $5 000.”
failure of a member of a partnership that holds a bookmaker’s licence to lodge an annual return
“Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $20 000.”
Unspecified contravention of s. 11G(1) or (2)
“Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $100 000.”
providing a regulated interactive gambling service without a licence
“Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $100 000.”
contravention of a regulation made for the purposes of subsection (1)
“The regulations may provide that a contravention of a regulation made for the purposes of subsection (1) is an offence and may provide for the offence to be punishable on conviction by a penalty not exceeding a fine of $100 000.”
each separate and further offence committed by the betting operator under the Interpretation Act 1984 section 71
“Penalty for this subsection: (a) a fine of $20 000; (b) for each separate and further offence committed by the betting operator under the Interpretation Act 1984 section 71 — a fine of $1 000.”
failure to lodge a return or pay the racing bets levy
“Penalty for this subsection: (a) a fine of $20 000; (b) for each separate and further offence committed by the betting operator under the Interpretation Act 1984 section 71 — a fine of $1 000.”
failure to comply with conditions and requirements to which the approval of bookmaking on an event or a contingency is subject
“Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $10 000.”
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