Casino Control Act 2006

A casino advisory panel must have at least 3 members.

The Minister must ensure that a member of a casino advisory panel has knowledge of and experience in at least 1 of the following disciplines and areas of expertise:

law and governance;

integrity and probity assessments in relation to significant changes in highly regulated industries;

finance, actuarial science or auditing;

risk advisory services;

urban design and planning;

civil engineering and civil works;

property development;

building work assessments;

construction;

building surveying;

strategies or services that reduce gambling harm;

anything else prescribed by regulation.

The Minister must not appoint a person to be a member of a casino advisory panel if the Minister is satisfied on reasonable grounds—

the person or the person’s domestic partner has an interest in a business subject to a gaming law; or

the person is unlikely to be able to properly exercise the functions of a member because of the person’s business association, financial association or close personal association with someone else; or

the person has been convicted or found guilty of an offence against a gaming law or a corresponding law; or

within 5 years before the proposed appointment, the person has been convicted, or found guilty, of an offence in Australia punishable by imprisonment for at least 1 year; or

within 5 years before the proposed appointment, the person has been convicted, or found guilty, of an offence outside Australia that, if it had been committed in the ACT, would have been punishable by imprisonment for at least 1 year.

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