Approved manuals — offences
24B Approved manuals — offences
A casino licensee must ensure that each approved manual is complied with.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $100 000.
It is a defence to a charge of an offence under subsection (1) to prove that the casino licensee took all reasonable steps to comply with that subsection.
A person who is specified, or is a member of a class of persons specified, by an approved manual as being required to comply with an obligation in the manual must comply with the obligation.
Penalty for this subsection:
for an individual, a fine of $100 000;
for a body corporate, a fine of $250 000.
It is a defence to a charge of an offence under subsection (3) to prove that the person took all reasonable steps to comply with that subsection.
[Section 24B inserted: No. 53 of 2024 s. 31.]
25. Records of gaming operations etc.
Unless a casino complex agreement otherwise provides, all books relating to the accounts of the gaming operations and the management of the casino complex shall, subject to subsection (2), be kept at the casino complex in a place approved by the Commission and the Commission, on giving notice in writing, shall forthwith be afforded the access and facilities necessary and may exercise in respect of those books the powers conferred by sections 26 and 27 of the Gaming and Wagering Commission Act 1987 in relation to its functions under this Act, any other Act or a casino complex agreement.
The Chief Casino Officer may by notice in writing —
exempt a casino licensee, or any other person affected by the requirements of subsection (1), from compliance with that subsection to such extent, or in respect of such books, as may be specified in that notice; or
consent, generally or in a particular case, to books otherwise required to be kept in a place approved by the Commission being removed temporarily.
Subject to any other Act or law relating to the retention or destruction of those books, all books to which subsection (1) applies shall be retained in the possession or subject to the control of the casino licensee for a period of 7 years after the completion of the transactions to which they relate unless the Commission, by notice in writing, otherwise approves —
the retention of the books in an alternative form or manner; or
the destruction of any books, the retention of which the Commission does not consider to be essential.
[Section 25 inserted: No. 74 of 1987 s. 29; amended: No. 24 of 1998 s. 20; No. 35 of 2003 s. 171(3).]
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