Racing and Wagering Act 2024
275Offences about misrepresentation of identity
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275 Offences about misrepresentation of identity (1) A person must not misrepresent the person's identity for the purpose of making a wager. (2) A person commits an offence if the person: (a) intentionally makes a wager; and (b) intentionally misrepresents the person's identity to a licensee or the licensee's employee at the time of purchase. (a) the person intentionally presents a document or information to make a wager; and
Racing and Wagering Act 2024 130 (b) the document or information could reasonably be taken to be a form of identification of the person and the person has knowledge of that circumstance; and (c) the document or information is fictitious or false in respect of the person's identity or relates to another person's identity and the person has knowledge of that circumstance. (4) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person intentionally provides a form of the person's identification to another person; and (b) the other person uses the identification to misrepresent the other person's identity to make a wager; and (c) the person is reckless in relation to the circumstance in paragraph (b). (5) Strict liability applies to subsection (4)(b).