86AWagering by minors and excluded persons prohibited

86A Wagering by minors and excluded persons prohibited

86A Wagering by minors and excluded persons prohibited

(1) A person is prohibited from making any wager in a casino if the person is a minor or is the subject of an exclusion order for the casino.

(2) A person is not entitled to any winnings from a successful wager in a casino that the person is prohibited from making by this section and those winnings are forfeited to the casino operator by operation of this section. The winnings from a wager do not include the amount wagered.

(3) A casino operator must pay the amount of any winnings forfeited to the casino operator by operation of this section into the Responsible Gambling Fund within 3 months after the winnings are forfeited.

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(4) For the purposes of this section, winnings includes any prize (whether monetary or non-monetary) and winnings in the form of credits on gaming machines or electronic gaming tables. The amount of any non-monetary prize is the monetary value of the non-monetary prize.

s 86A: Ins 2018 No 8, Sch 1 [44]. Am 2022 No 36, Sch 1[78].