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Casino Control Act 1982
sec.76Keeping books, records and documents
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### sec.76 Keeping books, records and documents
All books, records and documents relating to the operations of the hotel-casino complex or the casino, as the case may be, shall be kept by the casino operator on the hotel-casino complex premises.
Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
The chief executive may by signed written notice—
exempt the casino operator from compliance with subsection (1) either in respect of all books, records and documents or some of them as specified by the chief executive for reasons considered by the chief executive to be sufficient; or
approve generally or in particular cases that books, records and documents otherwise kept on the premises as aforesaid may be removed temporarily to another place or other places.
The casino operator must keep a book, record or document mentioned in subsection (1) for 5 years after the end of the transaction to which the book, record or document relates.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
Subsection (3) does not apply to a book, record or document if—
the information previously contained in the book, record or document is kept in another way under an approval of the chief executive; or
the book, record or document has been destroyed under an approval of the chief executive.
Subsection (3) has effect subject to any other law about the retention or destruction of the book, record or document.
s 76 amd 1995 No. 6 s 2 sch ; 2002 No. 43 ss 16 , 112 sch 2
(sec.76-ssec.1) All books, records and documents relating to the operations of the hotel-casino complex or the casino, as the case may be, shall be kept by the casino operator on the hotel-casino complex premises. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
(sec.76-ssec.2) The chief executive may by signed written notice— exempt the casino operator from compliance with subsection (1) either in respect of all books, records and documents or some of them as specified by the chief executive for reasons considered by the chief executive to be sufficient; or approve generally or in particular cases that books, records and documents otherwise kept on the premises as aforesaid may be removed temporarily to another place or other places.
(sec.76-ssec.3) The casino operator must keep a book, record or document mentioned in subsection (1) for 5 years after the end of the transaction to which the book, record or document relates. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
(sec.76-ssec.4) Subsection (3) does not apply to a book, record or document if— the information previously contained in the book, record or document is kept in another way under an approval of the chief executive; or the book, record or document has been destroyed under an approval of the chief executive.
(sec.76-ssec.5) Subsection (3) has effect subject to any other law about the retention or destruction of the book, record or document.
- (a) exempt the casino operator from compliance with subsection (1) either in respect of all books, records and documents or some of them as specified by the chief executive for reasons considered by the chief executive to be sufficient; or
- (b) approve generally or in particular cases that books, records and documents otherwise kept on the premises as aforesaid may be removed temporarily to another place or other places.
- (a) the information previously contained in the book, record or document is kept in another way under an approval of the chief executive; or
- (b) the book, record or document has been destroyed under an approval of the chief executive.