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Gambling Act 2003

Gambling - Licensing of class 4 gambling - Net proceeds and costs of class 4 gambling

117: Secretary may investigate and audit licensees, grant recipients, management services providers, and businesses at class 4 venues

You could also call this:

"The Secretary checks people and businesses follow class 4 gambling rules"

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The Secretary can check if people and businesses are following the rules about class 4 gambling. You might be checked if you have a licence to run a class 4 gambling venue, or if you get grants from class 4 gambling. The Secretary can also check businesses that operate at these venues and people who provide management services. The Secretary needs information from you to do these checks, so you must provide what is required. The results of these checks can be made public, and this can be done in a way that the Secretary thinks is suitable, such as on a website or in a report, and you can be told where to find the full results. If you do not comply with this, you can be fined up to $5,000. The Secretary can also get back the costs of doing these checks from people who hold class 4 operators’ licences, as set out in regulations made under section 370.

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Part 2Gambling
Licensing of class 4 gambling: Net proceeds and costs of class 4 gambling

117Secretary may investigate and audit licensees, grant recipients, management services providers, and businesses at class 4 venues

  1. The Secretary may, to the extent that is necessary to determine compliance with this Act, investigate and audit the generation, application, and distribution of the proceeds from class 4 gambling, which may include—

  2. an investigation and audit of the holder of a class 4 operator’s licence or a class 4 venue licence:
    1. an investigation and audit of a grant recipient:
      1. an investigation and audit of a management services provider:
        1. an investigation and audit of a business operating at a class 4 venue.

          1. The persons referred to in subsection (1) must provide any information required by the Secretary for the purpose of carrying out an investigation or audit under that subsection.

          2. The Secretary may publish, or require the corporate society to publish, in the form that the Secretary considers appropriate—

          3. the results of the investigation and audit:
            1. a summary of the results of the investigation and audit with details of where to obtain the full results.

              1. The Secretary may recover the costs of investigating or auditing from the holder of class 4 operators’ licences in accordance with regulations made under section 370.

              2. A person who fails to comply with this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

              Notes
              • Section 117 heading: amended, on , by section 26(1) of the Gambling Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 90).
              • Section 117(1): amended, on , by section 72 of the Gambling Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 3).
              • Section 117(1)(ba): inserted, on , by section 26(2) of the Gambling Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 90).
              • Section 117(5): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).