Queensland Consolidated Acts

INTERACTIVE GAMBLING (PLAYER PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 77

77 Grounds

(1) Each of the following is a ground for suspending or cancelling a key person licensee’s key person licence—

(a) the key person licensee—

(i) is not a suitable person to hold a key person licence; or

(ii) acts in a way that is inappropriate for the conduct of interactive games; or

(iii) contravenes a provision of this Act, or a corresponding law of a participating jurisdiction, other than a provision a contravention of which is an offence against this Act or the corresponding law; or

(iv) contravenes a condition of the licence;

(b) the key person licensee has a conviction, other than a spent conviction, for—

(i) an offence against this Act, a gaming Act or a corresponding law of a participating jurisdiction; or

(ii) an indictable offence;

(c) the key person licence was issued because of a materially false or misleading representation or document.

(2) For forming a belief that the ground mentioned in subsection (1) (a) (i) exists, the chief executive may have regard to the same matters to which the chief executive may have regard under section 67 (2) in deciding whether an applicant for a key person licence is a suitable person to hold the licence.

(3) For subsection (1) (a) (ii) , a key person licensee acts in a way that is inappropriate for the conduct of interactive games if the licensee does, or omits to do, an act that results in—

(a) the conduct of interactive games by a licensed provider not being conducted under the provider’s control system for the conduct of the games; and

(b) the integrity of the conduct of interactive games being jeopardised.

(4) In this section—

"spent conviction" means a conviction—

(a) for which the rehabilitation period under the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 has expired under that Act; and

(b) that is not revived as prescribed by section 11 of that Act.