New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BETTING AND RACING ACT 1998 - SECT 33JA

33JA Prohibited inducements

(1) A non-proprietary association or licensed betting service provider or other person must not offer or supply, or cause to be offered or supplied, an inducement to a person for that person--

(a) to open a betting account, or

(b) to invite another person to open a betting account, or

(c) not to close a betting account.

(2) A non-proprietary association or licensed betting service provider or other person must not offer or supply, or cause to be offered or supplied, an inducement to a person for that person to consent, or to not withdraw the person's consent, to receiving gambling advertisements.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1), a licensed betting service provider must not offer or supply, or cause to be offered or supplied, a free bet to the holder of a betting account, unless all payouts from the free bet may be withdrawn from that account at any time.

(4) A person (other than a non-proprietary association or a licensed betting service provider) does not commit an offence under this section in respect of the provision of offering an inducement or causing an inducement to be offered if--

(a) the offer was in the form provided (directly or indirectly) or approved by or on behalf of a non-proprietary association or a licensed betting service provider for the purposes of being offered, and

(b) the person has not been notified by or on behalf of the Minister that the offer may contravene this section.

(5) In this section--

"free bet" has the same meaning as it has in Part 4 of the Betting Tax Act 2001 .

: Maximum penalty--

(a) for an individual--100 penalty units, or

(b) for a corporation--1000 penalty units.