New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CASINO CONTROL ACT 1992 - SECT 81

81 Commissioner of Police may direct that person be excluded from casino and casino precinct

(1) The Commissioner of Police may direct that a person be given an exclusion order by giving a direction to both casino operators to give the person or cause the person to be given an exclusion order and it is a condition of each casino licence that the casino operator must comply with the direction.

Note : Such a direction must be given to both casino operators so that the person will be banned from both casinos.

(2) The Commissioner may give such a direction in anticipation of the person entering a casino.

(3) Where practicable, the Commissioner of Police is to make available to the casino operator a photograph of the person who is the subject of the direction and is to give the person notice of the direction.

(4) The regulations may declare the whole or a specified part of specified premises that form part of or are in the immediate vicinity of the building or complex of which a casino forms part to be the
"casino precinct" for the purposes of this section and this section then has effect as if the casino precinct formed part of the casino.

(6) A direction may be given under this section in relation to all or any of the premises comprised in the casino.

(7) If a direction is given under this section in relation to the whole or any part of the casino precinct, a reference in sections 79, 82, 83, 84 and 85 (and in any ancillary provisions) to a casino includes a reference to so much of the casino precinct as is the subject of the direction, but only in connection with an exclusion order made or to be made in conformity with the direction.

(7A) A direction given under this section may not be challenged, reviewed, quashed or called into question on any grounds whatsoever before any court or tribunal in any legal proceedings, or restrained, removed or otherwise affected by proceedings in the nature of prohibition or mandamus.

(8) The Commissioner of Police is to--

(a) notify the appropriate authority in each State or Territory of the making of an exclusion order following a direction given under subsection (1) and the revocation of any such order, and

(b) provide the appropriate authorities with the name of the person subject to the exclusion order and, where practicable, a photograph of that person.

(9) In this section--

"appropriate authority" means--

(a) in relation to the Australian Capital Territory--the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, or

(b) in relation to a State or Territory (other than the Australian Capital Territory)--an authority exercising, in relation to the police force of that State or Territory, functions corresponding to those of the Commissioner of Police in relation to the NSW Police Force.