New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CASINO CONTROL ACT 1992 - SECT 85

85 Removal of excluded person from casino

(1) This section applies to the following persons in a casino:

(a) the person for the time being in charge of the casino,

(b) an agent of the casino operator,

(c) a casino employee.

(2) A person to whom this section applies must, as soon as practicable after it becomes known to the person that a person the subject of an exclusion order (including an exclusion order given on the voluntary application of a person under section 79 (3)) is in the casino, notify an inspector, and then remove the person, or cause the person to be removed, from the casino.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(3) It is lawful for a person to whom this section applies, using no more force than is reasonable in the circumstances:

(a) to prevent a person the subject of an exclusion order from entering the casino, and

(b) to remove such a person from the casino or cause such a person to be removed from the casino.

(4) No civil or criminal liability is incurred by a person to whom this section applies for any act done or omitted to be done in good faith, and in accordance with this section, to or in respect of a person.

(5) This section does not limit or otherwise affect the civil liability of a person for negligence that causes personal injury to a person or the death of a person.