Gambling and Racing Control Act 1999

A regulation may prescribe 1 or more codes of practice to apply in relation to the following:

a person who is licensed or has a function under a gaming law;

a licensee’s executives or members of a licensee’s board or management committee;

a licensee’s premises or a worker at a licensee’s premises;

commitments under the National Consumer Protection Framework.

A code of practice may include, but is not limited to, guidelines about the following:

advertising, promotional practices and the offering of inducements;

providing objective and accurate information about losing and winning;

limiting facilities that make it easy for a gambler to spend more than the gambler originally intended;

Examples—facilities

 automatic teller machines

 credit facilities

 allowing people to pay by cheque or credit card

providing mechanisms to allow people experiencing gambling harm to exclude themselves using a licensee’s facilities for gambling;

training staff or executives or members of a licensee’s board or management committee to recognise and deal appropriately with people who are experiencing gambling harm or are at risk;

developing methods of dealing with staff or clients who are experiencing gambling harm or are at risk;

protection of privacy;

providing workplace rights training for workers at premises of club licensees;

providing training in corporate governance to a club licensee’s executives or members of a club licensee’s board or management committee.

A code of practice may include powers of direction for the commission to ensure compliance with the code.

The commission must, for each licence under a gaming law that permits the licensee to conduct gambling, develop and review a code of practice to apply to the licensees and make recommendations to the Minister for appropriate regulations.

In this section:

National Consumer Protection Framework means the National Consumer Protection Framework for Online Wagering in Australia, National Policy Statement of Australian Governments, as in force from time to time.