Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Regulations made
under section 37 may make provision for or with respect to regulating or
prohibiting —
(a) the
conduct of junkets; and
(b) the
offering to persons of inducements, whether in the form of rebates or
commissions or otherwise, to conduct or participate in junkets.
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1), the regulations may —
(a)
impose restrictions on who may conduct junkets or offer inducements;
(b)
require a person to be approved by the Commission before the person may
conduct junkets;
(c)
require a person to provide information and documents to the Commission,
including photographs, fingerprints and palm prints, for the purposes of being
approved by the Commission to conduct junkets;
(d)
require the person who conducts a junket, or a casino licensee, to give
advance notice of the junket to the Commission and to provide to the
Commission detailed information concerning the conduct of, and the
arrangements for the conduct of, the junket;
(e)
require any contract or other agreement that relates to the conduct of a
junket or the offer of an inducement to be in a form, and contain provisions,
approved by the Commission; and
(f)
require the person who conducts a junket, or a casino licensee, to give
specified information concerning the conduct of the junket to participants in
the junket.
(3) In this section
—
junket means any arrangement for the promotion of
gaming in a licensed casino by groups of persons, usually
involving —
(a)
payment by the casino licensee of a commission to the person who conducts the
junket; and
(b)
arrangements for the provision of transport, accommodation, food, drink and
entertainment for the participants in the arrangements, some or all of which
are paid for by the casino licensee or are otherwise provided on a
complimentary basis.
[Section 25A inserted by No. 24 of 1998
s. 21.]