Queensland Consolidated Acts

KENO ACT 1996 - SECT 148

148 Extending credit

(1) An authorised keno operator must not make a loan or extend credit in any form to any person, including the operator, to enable the person or another person to take part in an approved keno game.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.

(2) An employee of an authorised keno operator must not, in the course of the employee’s employment, make a loan or extend credit in any form to any person, including the employee, to enable the person or another person to take part in an approved keno game.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.

(2A) If a cash advance is made to a person in circumstances where an authorised keno operator or an employee of an authorised keno operator knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the person intends to use the cash advance to enable the person or another person to take part in an approved keno game, the operator or employee must not represent that the cash advance was made for some other purpose.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.

(3) An authorised keno operator must refuse to pay a prize for an approved keno game if the operator reasonably believes that the prize was obtained because of a contravention of subsection (1) , (2) or (2A) .

(4) In this section—

"employee" , of an authorised keno operator, means a person employed or engaged by the operator (whether or not for fee or reward) in functions relating to the conduct of keno gaming.