Interactive Gambling Act 1998
135Participation by children as players prohibited
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135 Participation by children as players prohibited (1) A person involved in the conduct of an authorised game must not allow a person who is under 18 years old to participate as a player in if the defendant believed on reasonable grounds that the person in relation to whom the alleged offence relates was over 18 years old. (3) A person who is under 18 years old must not, without reasonable excuse, participate as a player in an authorised game.
(4) In addition to any penalty imposed under subsection (1), a court that convicts a person of an offence against that subsection must order that the convicted person pay to the Territory a penalty equal to any amount that the person may have won by way of prize in any game in relation to the participation in which the person has been convicted.