Queensland Numbered Acts

BETTING TAX ACT 2018 - SECT 22

22 Obligation of betting operator to identify person’s location

(1) A betting operator must, when receiving a bet, take reasonable steps to identify the location of the person making the bet.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

Note—

If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 60 , to have also committed the offence.

(2) For complying with subsection (1) , a betting operator may rely on either of the following addresses as being the location of a person making a bet with the betting operator—

(a) for an individual—an address given to the betting operator by the individual as the individual’s residential address;

(b) for a company within the meaning of the Corporations Act —an address given to the betting operator by or for the company as the company’s principal place of business.

(3) However, subsection (2) does not apply if the betting operator knows, or has reasonable grounds to suspect, that an address mentioned in subsection (2) (a) or (b) is not the location of the person when the bet is made.

Examples of circumstances in which subsection (2) will not apply for a particular bet—

1 A betting operator holds a licence authorising the betting operator to receive face-to-face bets from persons at a place in Queensland. An account-holding customer of the betting operator has previously given an address outside Queensland as the customer’s residential address. The betting operator receives a face-to-face bet from the customer at a place in Queensland.

2 A person making a bet with a betting operator by telephone has previously given the betting operator an address outside Queensland as the person’s residential address. When making the further bet, the person tells the betting operator the person is in Queensland.