Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsThe Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted to be prescribed by this Act; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
• This Act imposes the following prohibitions:
(a) a prohibited interactive gambling service must not be provided to customers in Australia;
(b) unlicensed regulated interactive gambling services must not be provided to customers in Australia;
(c) an Australian - based prohibited interactive gambling service must not be provided to customers in designated countries;
(ca) credit must not be provided to customers of certain interactive wagering services;
(d) prohibited interactive gambling services must not be advertised;
(e) unlicensed regulated interactive gambling services must not be advertised;
(f) licensed interactive wagering services must not be provided to an individual who is registered in the National Self - exclusion Register.
• The ACMA may, on its own initiative, or in response to a complaint, investigate whether a person has contravened a provision of this Act that imposes any of those prohibitions.
• A body or association that represents internet service providers may develop an industry code.
• The ACMA has a reserve power to make an industry standard if there is no industry code or if an industry code is deficient.
• The ACMA must notify prohibited internet gambling content to internet service providers so that the providers can deal with the content in accordance with procedures specified in an industry code or industry standard.
• Credit must not be provided to customers of certain interactive wagering services.
• The ACMA must conduct a review of the operation of this Part.
• A body or association that represents internet service providers may develop an industry code that deals with the designated internet gambling matters (see section 35).
• An industry code may be registered by the ACMA.
• Compliance with an industry code is voluntary unless the ACMA directs a particular internet service provider to comply with the code.
• The ACMA has a reserve power to make an industry standard if there is no industry code or if an industry code is deficient.
• Compliance with an industry standard is mandatory.
• This Part sets up a mechanism that allows individuals to exclude themselves from being provided with licensed interactive wagering services.
• The ACMA must arrange for a body corporate to keep a register to be known as the National Self - exclusion Register. The body corporate is to be known as the Register operator.
• An individual may apply to the Register operator for the individual to be registered in the National Self - exclusion Register.
• A licensed interactive wagering service provider must not:
(a) provide a licensed interactive wagering service to a registered individual; or
(b) send, or cause to be sent, a regulated electronic message to an electronic address of a registered individual; or
(c) make, or cause to be made, a regulated telemarketing call to a registered individual; or
(d) send, or cause to be sent, regulated direct marketing material to a registered individual; or
(e) disclose information about a registered individual for marketing purposes; or
(f) open a licensed interactive wagering service account for a registered individual.
• The Register operator must, if requested to do so by a
licensed interactive wagering service provider, inform the provider whether an
individual is a registered individual.