Victorian Current Acts

GAMBLING REGULATION ACT 2003 - SECT 2.5.20

    (1)     A person must not provide a place for the purposes of unauthorised gambling.

Penalty:     1000 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years or both.

    (2)     A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1) if the person—

        (a)     is an owner, or the agent of an owner, of the place; and

        (b)     is not an occupier of the place; and

        (c)     either—

              (i)     was unaware, and had no reasonable ground to suspect, that the place was provided for the purposes of unauthorised gambling; or

              (ii)     had taken all reasonable steps to prevent the place being provided for the purposes of unauthorised gambling.

S. 2.5.21 (Heading) amended by No. 56/2014 s. 17(1).