Interactive Gambling (Player Protection) Act 1998 (Qld)

Interactive Gambling (Player Protection) Act 1998

An Act to regulate interactive gambling and for other purposes

Part 1 Preliminary

Division 1 Formal provisions

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Interactive Gambling (Player Protection) Act 1998.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

Division 2 Objects

3 Object (1) The overarching object of this Act is to ensure that, on balance, the State and the community as a whole benefit from interactive gambling. (2) The balance is achieved by allowing interactive gambling subject to a system of regulation and control designed to protect players and the community through— (a) ensuring the integrity and fairness of games; and (b) ensuring the probity of those involved in the conduct of interactive gambling; and (c) minimising the potential for harm from interactive gambling. (3) Within the overarching object, the following objects are included— (a) to establish and maintain an appropriate system of regulation and control for interactive gambling; (b) to provide protection for players of interactive games; (c) to provide a basis for implementing an interjurisdictional regulatory scheme for— (i) the reciprocal recognition between participating jurisdictions of licences, authorisations and other administrative acts; and (ii) the regulation and control of interactive gambling in the participating jurisdictions on a cooperative basis; and (iii) the sharing of tax derived from interactive gambling on an equitable basis.

Division 3 Basic concepts and definitions

4 Meaning of game A game includes a scheme or arrangement.

5 Meaning of player A player is a person who participates in an interactive game.