GAMING AND WAGERING COMMISSION ACT 1987 - SECT 109J

GAMING AND WAGERING COMMISSION ACT 1987 - SECT 109J

109J .         Reports on and inquiries into RWWA

        (1)         Where the Commission thinks fit, the Commission may report to the Minister and make recommendations as to any action that the Commission considers should be taken under section 109K.

        (2)         Where it appears to the Minister that it is in the public interest that an inquiry be carried out into the affairs, or into particular affairs, of RWWA or related matters the Minister may, in writing, direct the Commission to arrange the inquiry and a report on the findings of the inquiry.

        (3)         Related matters that may be made the subject of an inquiry include —

            (a)         gambling operations of RWWA; and

            (b)         RWWA’s compliance with the RWWA Act, this Act and other written laws; and

            (c)         suspected corruption; and

            (d)         the directors of the board of RWWA, and their relationship with other persons, or a class of persons which includes other persons, who, in the opinion of the Minister, are associated with them or could affect or be in a position to exercise direct or indirect control over the carrying out of any function in, or in relation to, RWWA; and

            (e)         whether or not it is in the public interest that a director of the board of RWWA remain as a director.

        (4)         A direction given under subsection (2) —

            (a)         must specify the affairs or matters to be the subject of the inquiry; and

            (b)         may require the inquiry to be carried out by a person appointed by the Minister.

        (5)         Where the Commission is directed under subsection (2) to arrange for an inquiry, the Commission must publish in the Gazette a notice —

            (a)         specifying the affairs or matters concerned; and

            (b)         stating the name of the person carrying out the inquiry.

        (6)         For the purposes of an inquiry carried out at the direction of the Minister under subsection (2), the person carrying out the inquiry has the powers of a Royal Commission and the chairman of a Royal Commission, and the provisions of the Royal Commissions Act 1968 have effect as if they were enacted in this Act with any necessary changes and in terms made applicable to the inquiry by that person.

        [Section 109J inserted: No. 35 of 2003 s. 161.]