New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BETTING AND RACING ACT 1998 - SECT 18C

18C Certain sports betting services prohibited

(1) A betting service provider must not, in New South Wales or elsewhere, offer a betting service in relation to a sporting event unless--

(a) the betting service provider is a licensed betting service provider, and

(b) an integrity agreement that meets the requirements of this section is in place between the sports controlling body for the sporting event and the licensed betting service provider.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) for an individual--

(i) 50 penalty units for a first offence, or

(ii) 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months (or both) for a second or subsequent offence, or

(b) for a corporation--

(i) 250 penalty units for a first offence, or

(ii) 1,000 penalty units for a second or subsequent offence.

(2) An integrity agreement referred to in this section must--

(a) set out the measures that will be used to prevent, investigate and assist in the prosecution of any match fixing or other corrupt behaviour related to betting on the sporting event, and

(b) provide for funding to go to the sports controlling body for the purposes of implementing some or all of those measures (unless the sports controlling body does not want any such funding), and

(c) provide for the sharing of information between the sports controlling body and the licensed betting service provider.

(3) This section does not apply in relation to a sporting event held wholly outside of New South Wales.

(4) This section does not require an integrity agreement to be in place at any time--

(a) during which there is no sports controlling body for the sporting event in respect of which the betting service is to be offered, or

(b) during the 6 months immediately following the prescription of a person or body as the sports controlling body for the sporting event.

(5) For the purposes of this section, a class of sporting events is held wholly outside of New South Wales only if each sporting event in that class is held wholly outside of New South Wales.