New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CASINO CONTROL ACT 1992 - SECT 168

168 Prosecution for offences

(1) Proceedings for an offence against this Act are to be disposed of summarily before the Local Court.

(2) Despite subsection (1), an offence against section 150 (Bribery) is to be dealt with summarily before the Local Court only:

(a) if the prosecutor proposes that it be so dealt with, and

(b) while the Local Court is satisfied that it is proper for the offence to be so dealt with.

(3) In any other case, an offence against section 150 is to be dealt with as an indictable offence.

(4) Proceedings for an offence against this Act may be instituted only by:

(b) the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Commissioner of Police or a person acting with the written authority of either of them, given generally or in relation to the particular case, or

(c) any person acting with the written authority of the Authority given generally or in relation to the particular case.

(5) A person who claims to have the written authority of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Commissioner of Police or the Authority to institute proceedings for an offence against this Act is presumed to have that authority unless the contrary is proved.

(6) This Act does not operate to exclude the prosecution of a person otherwise than under this Act, but a person is not, in relation to substantially the same acts or omissions, liable to be prosecuted both under this Act and under any other Act or any law.