Interactive Gambling (Player Protection) Act 1998

The overarching object of this Act is to ensure that, on balance, the State and the community as a whole benefit from interactive gambling.

The balance is achieved by allowing interactive gambling subject to a system of regulation and control designed to protect players and the community through—

ensuring the integrity and fairness of games; and

ensuring the probity of those involved in the conduct of interactive gambling; and

minimising the potential for harm from interactive gambling.

Within the overarching object, the following objects are included—

to establish and maintain an appropriate system of regulation and control for interactive gambling;

to provide protection for players of interactive games;

to provide a basis for implementing an interjurisdictional regulatory scheme for—

the reciprocal recognition between participating jurisdictions of licences, authorisations and other administrative acts; and

the regulation and control of interactive gambling in the participating jurisdictions on a cooperative basis; and

the sharing of tax derived from interactive gambling on an equitable basis.