INTERACTIVE GAMBLING ACT 2001 - SECT 21 ACMA may investigate matters

INTERACTIVE GAMBLING ACT 2001 - SECT 21

  (1)   The ACMA may , on its own initiative or in response to a complaint made under Division   1, investigate any of the following matters if the ACMA thinks that it is desirable to do so:

  (a)   whether a person has contravened a provision of:

  (i)   Part   2; or

  (ii)   Part   2A; or

  (iia)   Part   2B; or

  (iii)   Part   7A; or

  (iv)   Part   7B;

  (b)   whether:

  (i)   an internet service provider has contravened a code registered under Part   4 that is applicable to the provider; or

  (ii)   an internet service provider has contravened an online provider rule that is applicable to the provider.

Referral of complaint to an Australian police force

  (2)   If a complaint alleges that a person has contravened an offence provision of this Act, the ACMA may refer the complaint, to the extent that the complaint relates to the alleged contravention, to a member of an Australian police force.

  (2A)   If the ACMA refers a complaint to a member of an Australian police force, the ACMA must give written notice to the complainant stating that the complaint has been so referred.

  (3)   The manner in which a complaint may be referred under subsection   (2) to a member of an Australian police force includes (but is not limited to) a manner ascertained in accordance with an arrangement between the ACMA and the chief (however described) of the police force concerned.

  (4)   If a complaint is referred to a member of an Australian police force under subsection   (2), the member may refer the complaint to a member of another Australian police force.

  (5)   This section does not, by implication, limit the ACMA's powers to refer other matters to a member of an Australian police force.