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Betting Tax Act 2001
13LObligation of betting operator to identify person’s location
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#### 13L Obligation of betting operator to identify person’s location
13L Obligation of betting operator to identify person’s location
> > (1) A betting operator must, when receiving a bet, take reasonable steps to identify the location of the person making the bet.
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> > Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
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> > (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a betting operator may rely on the following as being the location of a person making a bet with the betting operator—
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> > > (a) for an individual—an address given to the betting operator by the individual as the individual’s residential address,
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> > > (b) for a corporation—an address given to the betting operator by or for the corporation as the corporation’s principal place of business.
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> > (3) However, subsection (2) does not apply if the betting operator knows, or has reasonable grounds to suspect, that an address specified in subsection (2) (a) or (b) is not the location of the person when the bet is made.
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> **s 13L:** Ins 2018 No 69, Sch 1 \[4\].