Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsS. 9A.1.3(1) amended by No. 4/2014 s. 39(1).
(1) A person (other than a person referred to in section 9A.1.20) must not perform any of the functions of a gaming industry employee unless the person holds a gaming industry employee's licence and complies with the conditions of the licence.
Penalty:
(a) if the function is referred to in section 9A.1.2(1)(c), (1)(ca), (1)(d), (1)(da), (1)(e), (1)(f) or (2)—250 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months or both;
(b) in any other case—60 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 months or both.
S. 9A.1.3(2) amended by Nos 32/2012 s. 17, 4/2014 s. 39(2).
(2) A venue operator, a monitoring licensee, a bingo centre operator or a gaming machine services provider must not—
(a) employ or use the services of a person to perform any function of a gaming industry employee; or
(b) allocate, or permit or allow to be allocated, to a person the performance of a function of a gaming industry employee—
unless the person holds a gaming industry employee's licence or is a person referred to in section 9A.1.20.
Penalty:
(a) if the function is referred to in section 9A.1.2(1)(c), (1)(ca), (1)(d), (1)(da), (1)(e), (1)(f) or (2)—250 penalty units;
(b) in any other case—60 penalty units.
(3) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) or (2) to prove that the person exercising the prescribed function was doing so in a bingo centre as a volunteer acting in good faith due to the absence, as a result of an emergency, of a person holding a gaming industry employee's licence.
S. 9A.1.4 inserted by No. 104/2004 s. 32.