Queensland Numbered Acts

RACING INTEGRITY ACT 2016 - SECT 102

102 Immediate cancellation of racing bookmaker’s licence

(1) The commission must cancel a licence holder’s racing bookmaker’s licence if the commission is advised by the police commissioner that the licence holder is—

(a) an identified participant in a criminal organisation; or

(b) an unsuitable corporation.

(2) Immediately after cancelling the racing bookmaker’s licence, the commission must give the licence holder an information notice about the decision to cancel the licence.

(3) The decision takes effect on the day the information notice is given to the licence holder.

(4) The information notice must include—

(a) a direction to the licence holder to return the racing bookmaker’s licence to the commission within 14 days after the cancellation; and

(b) a warning to the licence holder that, without a reasonable excuse, it is an offence to fail to comply with the direction.

(5) The Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 27B, does not apply to the information notice.