Queensland Numbered Acts

CASINO CONTROL AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2022 - SECT 21

21 Amendment of s 67 (Player accounts)

(1) Section 67 (2) to (2C) —
omit, insert—

(2) The casino operator must not accept deposits to a person’s player account other than as authorised under this section.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(2A) The casino operator may accept cash for deposit to a person’s player account.

(2B) The casino operator may accept a deposit into a person’s player account by use of a debit card.

(2C) The casino operator may accept a cheque for deposit to a person’s player account only if it is—

(a) a traveller’s cheque; or

(b) a bank cheque drawn in favour of the person and endorsed to the operator; or

(c) a cheque drawn on a bank by the person, made payable to the operator and dated but not postdated; or

(d) a cheque drawn in favour of the person and endorsed to the operator and—

(i) drawn on a bank by a casino licensee; or

(ii) drawn on a bank by the holder of a licence to operate a casino issued by another State under a law corresponding to this Act; or

(e) another cheque prescribed by regulation.

(2D) The casino operator may accept a deposit into a person’s player account by a credit card transaction only if the deposit is made by a nonresident of Queensland visiting a casino under a junket agreement.

(2E) The casino operator may accept a deposit into a person’s player account using a method approved by the chief executive.

(2) Section 67 (4) (b) —
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(b) if requested by the person for whom the player account is established—

(i) issue, for the whole or part of the amount in the account, a cheque made payable to the person that is drawn on a bank account approved by the chief executive; or

(ii) pay the person, for the whole or part of the amount in the account, using another method approved by the chief executive.

(3) Section 67 (5) —
omit.

(4) Section 67 (2A) to (4) —
renumber as section 67 (3) to (9) .