Gaming Offences Act 1936

No house, office, room, or place may be opened, kept, or used for the purpose of—

unlawful gaming;

the occupier betting with persons at the house, office, room or place;

any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of the occupier as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give any money or any valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any race, fight, game, sport, or exercise, or as or for the consideration for securing the paying or giving by some other person of any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency.

Every house, office, room, or place opened, kept, or used for any of the purposes set out in subsection (1) is a common nuisance and unlawful.

A person must not be the occupier of any such house, office, room, or place kept or used for any of the purposes set out in this section. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $20 000 or imprisonment for 1 year.

It is not necessary to prove that the occupier knew that the premises were kept or used for any of the purposes set out in this section, but such person must not be convicted if he or she proves that he or she did not know and could not by the exercise of all reasonable diligence have known that the premises were being so kept or used.