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Casino Control Act 1982
sec.30DGiving false or misleading information to the Minister or chief executive
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### sec.30D Giving false or misleading information to the Minister or chief executive
This section applies to each of the following entities—
a casino licensee;
a lessee under a casino lease;
a casino operator under a casino management agreement;
another entity given an information requirement under section 30C (2) .
The entity must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, give the Minister or chief executive information the entity knows, or ought reasonably to know, is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—160 penalty units.
Subsection (2) does not apply to an entity if the entity, when giving information in a document—
tells the Minister or chief executive, to the best of the entity’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
if the entity has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.
To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (2) applies to information regardless of whether or not the information was given in response to the exercise of a power under this Act.
This section does not apply to information to which section 107 (b) or (c) or 110 (f) apply.
Offences about giving false or misleading information in relation to information mentioned in subsection (5) are provided for in the provisions mentioned in that subsection.
s 30D ins 2022 No. 23 s 8
(sec.30D-ssec.1) This section applies to each of the following entities— a casino licensee; a lessee under a casino lease; a casino operator under a casino management agreement; another entity given an information requirement under section 30C (2) .
(sec.30D-ssec.2) The entity must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, give the Minister or chief executive information the entity knows, or ought reasonably to know, is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—160 penalty units.
(sec.30D-ssec.3) Subsection (2) does not apply to an entity if the entity, when giving information in a document— tells the Minister or chief executive, to the best of the entity’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and if the entity has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.
(sec.30D-ssec.4) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (2) applies to information regardless of whether or not the information was given in response to the exercise of a power under this Act.
(sec.30D-ssec.5) This section does not apply to information to which section 107 (b) or (c) or 110 (f) apply. Offences about giving false or misleading information in relation to information mentioned in subsection (5) are provided for in the provisions mentioned in that subsection.
- (a) a casino licensee;
- (b) a lessee under a casino lease;
- (c) a casino operator under a casino management agreement;
- (d) another entity given an information requirement under section 30C (2) .
- (a) tells the Minister or chief executive, to the best of the entity’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
- (b) if the entity has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.