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Gambling Act 2003

Gambling - Licensed promoters of class 3 gambling - Applications for licensed promoter’s licence

191: Eligibility for licensed promoter’s licence

You could also call this:

"Who can apply for a licence to run a gambling event in New Zealand?"

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You can apply for a licensed promoter's licence if you are a natural person over 18 years old or a company. You must meet certain rules to be eligible. If you are a natural person, you cannot apply if you are an undischarged bankrupt or a bankrupt whose order of discharge is suspended.

You also cannot apply if you have had a licensed promoter's licence cancelled or refused in the last five years. You must not apply for a licence if you know you are not eligible. If you break this rule, you can be fined up to $2,000.

You will be committing an offence if you apply for a licence knowing you are not eligible, and you can be convicted and fined.

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Licensed promoters of class 3 gambling: Applications for licensed promoter’s licence

191Eligibility for licensed promoter’s licence

  1. Subject to subsection (2), the following persons may apply for, and obtain, a licensed promoter’s licence:

  2. a natural person who is over the age of 18 years:
    1. a company.

      1. A person may not apply for, or obtain, a licensed promoter’s licence if,—

      2. in the case of a natural person,—
        1. the person is an undischarged bankrupt; or
          1. the person is a bankrupt whose order of discharge is suspended for a term that has not yet expired or is subject to conditions not yet fulfilled; or
          2. the person has previously held a licensed promoter’s licence that was cancelled, or for which a renewal was refused, at any time within the period of 5 years immediately before the date of application.

            1. A person must not apply for, or obtain, a licensed promoter’s licence knowing that the person is not eligible to do so.

            2. A person who contravenes subsection (3) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.

            Compare
            • 1977 No 84 s 39(1), (2), (4)
            Notes
            • Section 191(4): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).