Nsw Gambling Regulator

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  • The Issue

    Consultation period: 10/01/2020 9:00 am to 07/02/2020 5:00 pm

    What’s this about?

    A proposed Community Gaming Regulation 2020 has been developed to support the Community Gaming Act 2018 (CG Act), which has not yet commenced.

    The CG Act and Community Gaming Regulation will replace the Lotteries and Art Unions Act 1901 (LAU Act) and the Lotteries and Art Unions Regulation 2014 (LAU Regulation).

    The proposed Regulation includes:

    • permitted gaming activities and key requirements
    • when an authority is required for a gaming activity
    • authority and conduct requirements, duration and costs of authorities
    • general requirements for gaming activities
    • advertising restrictions and audit requirements
    • when penalty notices may be imposed.

    The proposed Regulation retains many of the existing requirements for the conduct of gaming activities, but also modernises the legislation to introduce a more streamlined and principles-based approach to community gaming. Information in the conditions attached to permits, the fact sheets and the Fair Trading website have all been consolidated into the proposed Regulation to allow for a single point of reference. This aims to improve consumers’ and gaming operators’ accessibility to, and understanding of, the community gaming laws and reflects the NSW Government’s commitment to enhancing customer service.

    The Regulatory Impact Statement explains the objectives and rationale of the proposed Regulation and its impacts.

    What has happened so far?

    In 2016–17, Liquor and Gaming NSW undertook a comprehensive public review of the LAU Act (OLGR Review) accompanied by targeted stakeholder consultation. The OLGR Review report noted the common view among key stakeholders that the LAU Act was complex, confusing and overly prescriptive.

    Following the OLGR Review, the NSW Parliament passed the CG Act on 17 October 2018. The CG Act will introduce a new community gaming legislative framework for charitable, not-for-profit and social purposes, and for trade promotions in the commercial sector.

    The proposed Regulation provides an updated regulatory regime that reflects contemporary standards and risks associated with specific gaming activities.

    Next steps

    The NSW Government is now seeking feedback on the proposed Community Gaming Regulation from 10 January 2020 to 7 February 2020. Once the consultation period has ended, the feedback will be analysed and the draft Community Gaming Regulation will be amended as required.

  • Milestones

    • September 2017 – OLGR Review final report published
    • 26 October 2018 – Community Gaming Act 2018 assented
    • 10 January 2020 – Public consultation on the proposed Community Gaming Regulation begins
    • 7 February 2020 – Public consultation deadline

  • Outcomes

    During this consultation we received 20 submissions of which 2 were confidential. The remaining 18 submissions have been made publicly available with private information redacted where necessary.

    All the submissions made during the consultation have been read and considered. All publishable submissions can now be found below.

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Gambling on the Internet is a report presented to the 1999 Conference of the International Association of Gambling Regulators. It consists of two parts: 'The Legal Perspective' by Thomas N. Auriemma of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, and 'The Regulatory Perspective' by Bill Lahey of the Victorian Casino and Gaming Authority. The Queensland Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (QOLGR) is responsible for licensing and compliance and the Office of Regulatory Policy (QORP) is responsible for policy and legislative development for the regulation of liquor, gaming and fair trading, as well as harm minimisation programs for the liquor and gambling industries.

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Gambling

The NSW gaming regulator has formally requested Crown Resorts to delay plans to conduct a 'limited opening' of its new $2.2 billion Sydney casino in December.

In an announcement to the press this afternoon, Philip Crawford of the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority said they would rather wait until the report of the current inquiry into the gaming giant is handed down.

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The report is due in late January or early February 2021. The inquiry is into allegations Crown-held accounts were used for money laundering operations.

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© Nine Crown Casino, stands prominently to the Sydney skyline at Barangaroo.

'We are hopeful that Crown Resorts will agree to our request to postpone opening of all gaming activities, which would be unable to begin without approval of these regulatory matters,' Mr Crawford said.


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'The Authority has found ongoing evidence before the Bergin Inquiry to be extremely concerning, and that any gaming activity at the casino before the Inquiry's findings are released in February 2021 and considered by the Authority would pose unacceptable risks on the community against the public interest.

'In light of this, we did not consider it appropriate to determine the applications before the Authority until the findings of the Bergin Inquiry.'

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© Nine ILGA chair Philip Crawford.

Mr Crawford said ILGA is prepared to work with Crown to explore options that may enable the opening of non-gaming areas including accommodation, restaurants, bars and entertainment areas next month.

More to come.