Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Repeal and Advisory Councils Act 2024
No. 25 of 2024
Version incorporating amendments as at
1 April 2026
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
Part 1—Preliminary 1
1 Purposes 1
2 Commencement 2
3 Definitions 2
Part 2—Repeal of Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011 3
Division 1—Repeal of Act 3
4 Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011 3
Division 2—Abolition of Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation 3
5 Abolition of Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and transfer of property, rights and liabilities to the Crown 3
Division 3—Transitional matters 4
6 Regulations dealing with transitional matters 4
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Endnotes 9
1 General information 9
2 Table of Amendments 11
3 Explanatory details 12
Version No.002
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Repeal and Advisory Councils Act 2024
No. 25 of 2024
Version incorporating amendments as at
1 April 2026
The Parliament of Victoria enacts:
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Purposes
The purposes of this Act are—
(a) to repeal the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011; and
(b) to abolish the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and provide for the transfer of its property, rights and liabilities to the Crown; and
(c) to amend the Gambling Regulation Act 2003—
(i) to establish the Gambling Harm Response Fund; and
(ii) to abolish the Responsible Gambling Ministerial Advisory Council; and
(d) to amend the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission Act 2011 to further provide for the functions of the Commission; and
(e) to amend the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 to abolish the Liquor Control Advisory Council.
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into operation on a day or days to be proclaimed.
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(2) If a provision of this Act does not come into operation before 1 April 2025, it comes into operation on that day.
3 Definitions
In this Act—
commencement day means the day on which Part 2 of this Act comes into operation;
liabilities means all liabilities, duties and obligations, whether actual, contingent or prospective;
property means any legal or equitable estate or interest (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent) in real or personal property of any description;
rights means all rights, powers, privileges and immunities, whether actual, contingent or prospective.
Part 2—Repeal of Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011
Division 1—Repeal of Act
4 Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011
The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011 is repealed.
Division 2—Abolition of Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation
5 Abolition of Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and transfer of property, rights and liabilities to the Crown
On the commencement day—
(a) the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation established by section 4 of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011 is abolished; and
(b) the Board of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation established by section 8 of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011 is abolished and its members go out of office; and
(c) the chief executive officer of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation appointed under section 17 of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011 goes out of office; and
(d) all property and rights that, immediately before that day, were vested in the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation are vested in the Crown; and
(e) all liabilities of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation existing immediately before that day become liabilities of the Crown; and
(f) the Crown is substituted as a party to any proceeding pending in any court or tribunal to which the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation was a party immediately before that day; and
(g) the Crown is substituted as a party to any arrangement or contract entered into by or on behalf of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation as a party and in force immediately before that day.
Division 3—Transitional matters
6 Regulations dealing with transitional matters
(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations containing provisions of a transitional nature, including matters of an application or savings nature, arising as a result of the enactment of this Act (including the repeals and amendments made by this Act).
(2) Regulations made under this section may—
(a) have a retrospective effect to a day on or from the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent; and
(b) be of limited or general application; and
(c) leave any matter or thing to be decided by a specified person or class of person; and
(d) provide for the exemption of persons or things or classes of persons or things from any of the regulations made under this section.
(3) Regulations made under this section have effect despite anything to the contrary in any Act (other than this Act or the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006) or in any subordinate instrument.
(4) This Division is repealed on the second anniversary of the day on which it comes into operation.
Pt 3 (Headings and ss 7–15) repealed by No. 25/2024 s. 15.
Pt 4 (Heading and ss 16–18) repealed by No. 25/2024 s. 18.
Pt 5 (Heading and ss 19–21) repealed by No. 25/2024 s. 21.
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Endnotes
1 General information
See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.
Minister's second reading speech—
Legislative Assembly: 1 May 2024
Legislative Council: 30 May 2024
The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to repeal the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Act 2011, to abolish the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, to amend the Gambling Regulation Act 2003, the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission Act 2011 and the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 and for other purposes."
The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Repeal and Advisory Councils Act 2024 was assented to on 25 June 2024 and came into operation on 1 July 2024: Special Gazette (No. 345) 25 June 2024 page 1.
INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)
Style changes
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References to ILA s. 39B
Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided section or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subsections or subclauses, the original section or clause becomes subsection or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original section or clause.
Interpretation
As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:
• Headings
All headings included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any heading inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; sections; clauses; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. See section 36(1A)(2A).
• Examples, diagrams or notes
All examples, diagrams or notes included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Act. See section 36(3A).
• Punctuation
All punctuation included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 forms part of that Act. Any punctuation inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. See section 36(3B).
• Provision numbers
All provision numbers included in an Act form part of that Act, whether inserted in the Act before, on or after 1 January 2001. Provision numbers include section numbers, subsection numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).
• Location of "legislative items"
A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of an Act is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.
• Other material
Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of an Act.
See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).
2 Table of Amendments
This publication incorporates amendments made to the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Repeal and Advisory Councils Act 2024 by Acts and subordinate instruments.