New South Wales Consolidated Acts

UNLAWFUL GAMBLING ACT 1998 - SECT 27

27 Notice of making of final declaration or revocation of interim declaration

(1) If the owner or occupier of gambling premises the subject of a final declaration did not appear, or was not represented, before the Local Court on the making of the final declaration, a senior police officer must cause notice of the making of the declaration to be served on the owner or occupier:

(a) personally, or

(b) if personal service cannot be effected promptly, by causing a copy of the notice to be fixed to or near the entrance to the declared gambling premises.

(2) A person must not deface, destroy, cover or remove a copy of a notice fixed under this section.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months (or both).

(3) A senior police officer must cause notice of the making of a final declaration, or the revocation of an interim declaration, to be published:

(a) on 2 different days in a newspaper circulating in the area of the premises the subject of the declaration, and

(b) in the Gazette.