44Special employees to be licensed and hold certificate of competency

44 Special employees to be licensed and hold certificate of competency

44 Special employees to be licensed and hold certificate of competency

(1) A special employee must hold both a licence and a certificate of competency for the functions that the special employee exercises. A licence authorises the holder of the licence to exercise in or in relation to a casino the functions for which the licensee holds a certificate of competency, subject to the functions being exercised in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the conditions of the licence.

(2) A person must not exercise in or in relation to a casino any of the functions of a special employee except in accordance with the authority conferred on the person by a licence.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(3) A casino operator must not—

(a) employ or use the services of a person to exercise any function of a special employee in or in relation to the casino, or

(b) allocate or permit or suffer to be allocated to a person the exercise of any function of a special employee in or in relation to the casino,

unless the person is authorised by a licence to exercise the function concerned.

Maximum penalty—1,000 penalty units.

(4) Despite subsections (1)–(3), a special employee is not required to hold a licence if the employee holds a close associate approval.

s 44: Subst 2010 No 16, Sch 1 [5]. Am 2022 No 36, Sch 1[43] [44].