Gambling Act 2003

Harm prevention and minimisation, enforcement, and other matters - Problem gambling levy

320A: Levy may be calculated for period of less than 3 years

You could also call this:

"The law lets a levy be calculated for less than 3 years to help cover gambling problem costs."

The law says that sometimes a levy can be calculated for less than 3 years. You need to know that sections 319 and 320 of the law allow this to happen. The levy is worked out so that you pay enough to cover the full cost of helping people with gambling problems over the whole 3-year period.

The law also says that the levy might only be paid for part of the 3-year period. This means that even if you only pay the levy for a short time, the amount you pay will be enough to cover the costs for the whole 3 years. This is how the law makes sure that the cost of helping people with gambling problems is covered.

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320: Calculating levy, or

"How the Government works out the levy that gambling operators must pay to help stop problem gambling"

321: Initial levy, or

"An 'Initial levy' is an old rule that used to exist but is no longer in effect."

Part 4Harm prevention and minimisation, enforcement, and other matters
Problem gambling levy

320ALevy may be calculated for period of less than 3 years

Sections 319 and 320 authorise (but do not require) the calculation of the levy on the basis that—
it will be payable only for a period that commences part-way through the 3-year period to which it relates; but
it is set at a rate sufficient to recover the full cost of the integrated problem gambling strategy for the whole of that 3-year period.

Subsection (1) is for the avoidance of doubt.

Notes

Section 320A: inserted, on 3 March 2015, by section 108 of the Gambling Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 3).