Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Gambling Regulation Act 2003 - SECT 2.5.17.

Betting placards and notices not to be posted up anywhere

2.5.17. Betting placards and notices not to be posted up anywhere



(1) A person must not exhibit or permit or allow to be exhibited or assist in
exhibiting in or on or about any land, building or premises a document
containing any information or notice or list directly or indirectly relating
to betting or to totalisators or to an unlawful game.

Penalty: For a first offence, 15 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 months or
both; For a second offence, 25penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months or
both; For a third or subsequent offence, imprisonment for 12 months.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) to
prove that the defendant did not know, and had reasonable grounds for not
knowing, that the information, notice or list related to betting, totalisators
or unlawful games.



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