GAMBLING REGULATION ACT 2003 - SECT 2.2.2 Recovery of money lost in unauthorised gambling
GAMBLING REGULATION ACT 2003 - SECT 2.2.2
Recovery of money lost in unauthorised gambling(1) This section applies if a person ( the participant ) has paid or staked money or other valuable consideration in unauthorised gambling.
(2) Each person who conducted the unauthorised gambling is jointly and severally liable to return the money or other valuable consideration (or the value of the valuable consideration) to the participant.
(3) The participant may recover the money or other valuable consideration (or the value of the valuable consideration) in a court of competent jurisdiction.
Division 2—Authorised gambling
S. 2.2.3 substituted by No. 56/2014 s. 9 (as amended by No. 64/2014 s. 56(1)).