Western Australian Current Acts

GAMING AND WAGERING COMMISSION ACT 1987 - SECT 48

48 .         Issue of permit on direction by Minister

        (1)         Where, by reason of a major sporting event, a special occasion or other exceptional circumstances, the Minister so determines, and notwithstanding that the manner of the application or the matter to which it relates is not otherwise provided for by this Act or does not comply with the requirements of or prescribed under this Act, the Minister, after consultation in so far as the Minister thinks fit with the Commission, may direct the Commission —

            (a)         to issue a permit to a specified person in relation to a specified kind of gaming on specified premises, whether or not approved premises, on such conditions as are specified; and

            (b)         as to the period for and manner in which the permit should be issued; and

            (c)         as to any charge, duty or fee that is to be payable in relation to the permit,

                and effect shall be given to that direction and to any permit complying with that direction, subject to section 46(2) and (4).

        (2)         In subsection (1), specified means specified in the direction given by the Minister to the Commission.

        [Section 48 amended: No. 16 of 1990 s. 33; No. 35 of 2003 s. 167.]