Gambling and Racing Control Act 1999

The governing board has 5 members, of whom 1 must have knowledge, experience or qualifications related to providing counselling services to people experiencing gambling harm.

Note 1 The chair and deputy chair of the governing board must be appointed under the Financial Management Act 1996, s 79.

Note 2 The chief executive officer of the authority is a member of the board (see Financial Management Act 1996, s 80 (4)).

A person is not eligible to be a member if—

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

Note For the meaning of domestic partner, see the Legislation Act, s 169.

the person would be 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.

Note Found guilty—see the Legislation Act, dictionary, pt 1.

In this section:

corresponding law means a law of another jurisdiction, whether in or outside Australia, that regulates gaming or racing.