Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to this
section, the Commission, by notice published in the Gazette ,
may —
(a)
declare any game, except for a game played with poker machines, to be an
authorised game for the purposes of this Act; and
(b)
revoke a declaration made under this subsection.
(1a) The Commission
shall, before revoking a declaration made under subsection (1), cause to
be served on the casino licensee concerned and on any other person considered
by the Commission to be likely to be adversely affected by the proposed
revocation a notice in writing —
(a)
specifying the authorised game to which the proposed revocation relates and
the reasons for the proposed revocation; and
(b)
requiring the casino licensee concerned and any other person so considered to
show cause in writing within a period of 7 days after the date of that
service why the proposed revocation should not take place.
(1b) A person on whom
a notice has been served under subsection (1a) may within the period of
7 days after the date of that service serve on the Commission a
submission in writing showing cause why the proposed revocation to which that
notice relates should not take place.
(1c) After receiving
and considering each submission served on it under subsection (1b) within
the period referred to in that subsection or, if no submission is so served,
within a period of 10 days after having caused to be served under
subsection (1a) the relevant notice, or the later or last of the relevant
notices, as the case requires, the Commission may revoke, or decline to
revoke, under subsection (1) the declaration concerned.
(2) The Commission
shall not declare a game to be an authorised game under subsection (1)
unless the Commission has approved the rules under which it is to be played.
(2a) Notwithstanding
anything in this section, the Commission shall, on or before the day on which
a casino gaming licence is granted to a party to a casino complex
agreement —
(a)
approve the rules under which every game specified for the purpose of this
subsection in the casino complex agreement is to be played; and
(b)
declare the game referred to in paragraph (a) to be an authorised game
under subsection (1).
(3) When a game is
declared to be an authorised game under subsection (1), the rules of the
game approved under subsection (2) become, for the purposes of this Act,
the approved rules of the game, but the Commission may, at any time, give a
casino licensee a direction to alter the approved rules of any game and, on
the receipt by the casino licensee of that direction, the approved rules of
that game shall be those as altered in accordance with that direction.
(4) A reference in
subsection (3) to the alteration of any rules includes a reference to the
omission of any of those rules and the addition to those rules of further
rules.
(5) The Commission
may, by notice in writing delivered to a casino licensee, require the casino
licensee to publish copies of the approved rules for any authorised game, and
the casino licensee shall, within such reasonable period as may be specified
in that notice, comply with that requirement and give the Commission as many
of those copies as may be specified in that notice.
(6) A casino licensee,
and any other person or body, corporate or unincorporate, organizing or
managing gaming operations in a licensed casino, shall not permit a game to be
conducted or played in the casino —
(a)
other than an authorised game; or
(b) if
the game is not conducted and played in accordance with the approved rules of
the game.
Penalty: $5 000.
(7) A person shall not
in a casino —
(a)
conduct a game; or
(b)
permit a game conducted by that person to be played by any other participant,
otherwise than in
accordance with the approved rules of the game.
Penalty: $2 500.
[Section 22 amended by No. 10 of 1985
s. 32; No. 74 of 1987 s. 26.]