Casino Control Regulation 2019

In this section—

authorised officer means a police officer or an inspector.

An authorised officer may serve a penalty notice on a person (including a licensee) if it appears to the officer that the person has committed an offence under this Act and the offence is one that is stated by the regulations under the Casino Control Act 1992 to be an offence to which this section applies.

A penalty notice is a notice to the effect that, if the person served does not wish to have the matter determined by a court, the person may pay within a time and to a person specified in the notice the amount of penalty prescribed by the regulations under the Casino Control Act 1992 for the offence if dealt with under this section.

A penalty notice may be served personally, by post or by electronic means to an email address or mobile phone number—

given voluntarily by the person for the issue of the penalty notice, or

required to be supplied under section 63 of the Casino Control Act 1992.

If the amount of penalty prescribed for the purposes of this section for an alleged offence is paid under this section, no person is liable to any further proceedings or action in relation to the alleged offence, except the taking of disciplinary action under Part 9.

Payment under this section is not to be regarded as an admission of liability for the purpose of, nor in any way affect or prejudice, any civil proceeding arising out of the same occurrence.

However, if a penalty is paid under this section in respect of a penalty notice served on a person, the person is, for the purposes of Part 9, taken to have been convicted of the offence to which the penalty notice related.

The regulations under the Casino Control Act 1992 may—

prescribe an offence for the purposes of this section by specifying the offence or by referring to the provision creating the offence, and

prescribe the amount of penalty payable for the offence if dealt with under this section, and

prescribe different amounts of penalties for different offences or classes of offences.

The amount of a penalty prescribed under this section for an offence must not exceed the maximum amount of penalty which could be imposed for the offence by a court.

This section does not limit the operation of any other provision of, or made under, this or any other Act or law relating to proceedings that may be taken in respect of offences.