Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(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.