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Gambling Act 2003

Harm prevention and minimisation, enforcement, and other matters - Gambling inspectors

335: Power of gambling inspector to seize equipment in casino venue

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"Inspectors can take casino equipment if they think it's used for a crime"

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If you are in a casino, a gambling inspector can take any equipment or devices they think might be used as evidence of a crime against sections 351 to 353. The inspector must have a good reason to believe this. Before taking the equipment, the inspector must give the person in charge of it a chance to hand it over. The inspector follows rules from the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 when taking the equipment, which you can find out more about by looking at Part 4 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, except for subpart 3. The inspector is not allowed to search you as a person, only to take equipment that might be evidence of a crime.

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Part 4Harm prevention and minimisation, enforcement, and other matters
Gambling inspectors

335Power of gambling inspector to seize equipment in casino venue

  1. A gambling inspector may, while in a casino venue, seize any gambling equipment, device, or thing if the inspector has reasonable grounds to believe it will be evidence of the commission of an offence against sections 351 to 353.

  2. A gambling inspector may exercise the power set out in subsection (1) only after he or she has given the person from whom the gambling equipment, device, or thing is proposed to be seized the opportunity to surrender the item to the inspector.

  3. The provisions of Part 4 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (except subpart 3) apply.

  4. To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not authorise a gambling inspector to search any person.

  5. Repealed
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  • 1990 No 62 s 87
Notes
  • Section 335(3): replaced, on , by section 254(2) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (2012 No 24).
  • Section 335(5): repealed, on , by section 254(3) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (2012 No 24).