Western Australian Current Acts

GAMING AND WAGERING COMMISSION ACT 1987 - SECT 57

57 .         Reports by permit holders, when required, content of etc.

        (1)         Where the Commission by notice in writing or a condition imposed in relation to a permit so requires, the permit holder shall, not later than the day required by the Commission, furnish to the Commission a report verified in such manner as the Commission may require by the permit holder, and in the case of a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, also by 2 officers of that body other than the permit holder, being persons appointed by that body with the approval of the Commission for the purposes of this section, showing —

            (a)         the particular purpose or purposes to which proceeds of any gaming were applied, and the amount applied for that purpose, or for each of those purposes, as may be required; and

            (b)         each date and place at which gaming to which the permit purported to apply occurred; and

            (c)         the total amount of the proceeds of the permitted gaming; and

            (d)         the sums appropriated out of those proceeds on account of expenses, and on account of prizes, respectively,

                and shall at that time, or subsequently, as the Commission requires, furnish such other information as to the permitted gaming or its conduct or as to moneys related thereto as the Commission may require, verified in such manner as the Commission may require.

        (2)         The Commission may require that any report under this section be verified by an independent auditor acceptable to, or appointed by, the Commission at the expense of the permit holder, but any such expense may be deducted as a proper expense in relation to the permitted gaming only where the auditor so certifies and the Commission consents.

        (3)         A person who or which furnishes in or in relation to a report required under subsection (1) information which is false or misleading in a material particular, or who verifies any such report knowing it to contain such information, commits an offence.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $100 000.

        (4)         A person who or which fails to give a report or information required under subsection (1) commits an offence.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $50 000.

        [Section 57 amended: No. 35 of 2003 s. 167; No. 41 of 2018 s. 25(1); No. 53 of 2024 s. 54.]