Offences
11G Offences
A person who in, or in relation to —
any application or matter to be determined by the Commission, or by a steward in charge of a race meeting or steward or other person under section 12A; or
any —
statement of assets or liabilities; or
notice or annual return; or
return or other record; or
thing,
required, made, maintained, kept, delivered, furnished or produced under or for the purposes of this Act,
makes a statement that is false or misleading by reason of the inclusion in the statement of false or misleading matter or of the omission from the statement of any matter that is required or may be material, or furnishes or causes to be furnished any record or thing that is false or is misleading in a material particular or which makes any material omission, commits an offence.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $100 000.
A person who, by an act intended to falsify or destroy the record, alters or destroys any record to which subsection (1) relates commits an offence.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $100 000.
A person who, otherwise than in the course of a duty under this Act, makes a record of, or divulges or communicates to any person, information coming to the knowledge of that person by reason of —
a report to be made or made to the Commission by the Commissioner of Police under this Act; or
this Act, in the course of the administration of this Act,
commits an offence.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $50 000.
A person who carries on the business of bookmaking, or any aspect of the business of a bookmaker, otherwise than in accordance with —
this Act; and
the terms and conditions of, and any endorsement on, a licence; and
the terms of, and conditions applicable to, a permit issued under section 12, in so far as is not inconsistent with this Act or that licence,
commits an offence.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $50 000.
Without limiting the matters which a court may take into consideration when passing sentence in respect of an offence committed under subsection (4), the court may take into consideration when so passing sentence any interstate offence of which the accused has previously been convicted.
In subsection (5) —
interstate offence means offence under the law of another State or of a Territory, which offence is declared by the regulations to be an offence that corresponds to an offence under subsection (4).
[Section 11G inserted: No. 13 of 2002 s. 7; amended: No. 35 of 2003 s. 102; No. 84 of 2004 s. 82; No. 41 of 2018 s. 15(1); No. 53 of 2024 s. 7 and 23.]
[11H, 11I. Deleted: No. 70 of 2006 s. 10(2).]
This provision refers to the regulations (declared by the regulations
). Made under this Act:
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