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GAMING CONTROL ACT 1993 - SECT 135 Offences relating to inspectors

GAMING CONTROL ACT 1993 - SECT 135

Offences relating to inspectors

(1)  A person must not –
(a) assault, obstruct, hinder, threaten, abuse, insult or intimidate an inspector or a police officer when the inspector or police officer is exercising or attempting to exercise his or her functions under this Act; or
(b) fail to produce for inspection any gaming equipment, other equipment used in relation to the conduct of gaming, a gaming activity, or a game, under a licence or permit granted under this Act, ticket in a foreign game, records or prohibited device in the possession or under the control of the person when required so to do by an inspector or police officer in the exercise of his or her functions under this Act; or
(c) fail without reasonable excuse to attend before an inspector or police officer and answer questions or supply information when required so to do by the inspector or police officer in the exercise of his or her functions under this Act; or
(d) except with the permission of an inspector or police officer, take any gaming equipment, other equipment, ticket in a foreign game, records or prohibited device seized, impounded or retained under the authority of this Act; or
(e) when directed by an inspector or police officer, in the exercise of his or her functions under this Act, to cease to have available for use any gaming equipment considered by the inspector or police officer to be unsatisfactory for use, fail to comply with the direction; or
(ea) fail without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement of an inspector to provide assistance that is reasonably necessary for the inspector to perform his or her functions; or
(f) prevent, directly or indirectly, a person from attending before an inspector or police officer, producing to an inspector or member any gaming equipment, other equipment, records or prohibited device or answering any question of, or supplying any information to an inspector or police officer when that person is required to do so under this Act.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(2)  If an inspector or a police officer requires a person on prescribed premises to state his or her full name and residential address the person must not –
(a) fail to comply with the requirement; or
(b) in purported compliance with the requirement, state a name or address that is false.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 20 penalty units.
(3)  An inspector or a police officer is not authorized to require a person on prescribed premises to state his or her full name or residential address unless the inspector or police officer–
(a) suspects on reasonable grounds that the person has committed an offence; and
(b) has informed the person, at the time of stating the requirement, that it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement.
(4)  In this section –
prescribed premises means –
(a) an approved venue; and
(b) the premises of a keno operator, monitoring operator, a person listed on the Roll, a licensed provider or a minor gaming operator; and
(c) any other premises on which the inspector concerned has reason to believe gaming or a gaming activity is conducted;
records has the same meaning as in section 133 .