Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Applications
for —
(a) a
bookmaker’s licence by a natural person, a partnership or a body
corporate;
(b) a
bookmaker’s manager licence;
(c) a
bookmaker’s employee licence;
(d) the
renewal of a bookmaker’s manager licence or a bookmaker’s employee
licence;
(e)
approval to become a member of a partnership that holds a bookmaker’s
licence; or
(f)
approval to occupy a position of authority in a body corporate that holds a
bookmaker’s licence,
may be made to the
Commission, which may grant or refuse an application for a licence, renewal or
approval.
(2) On an application
in a form approved by the Commission accompanied by the prescribed fee being
lodged with the Commission, and on such supporting information as the
Commission may direct being furnished to the satisfaction of the Commission,
and in the case of an application for a bookmaker’s licence subject also
to section 11E(1) or (2), if the case requires, the Commission may
grant the application and —
(a)
issue to the applicant a bookmaker’s licence; or
(b)
issue to the applicant, or renew, a bookmaker’s manager licence or a
bookmaker’s employee licence.
(3) A member or
officer of the Commission may inspect and take copies of any records produced
to the Commission under this Act, for use at the discretion of the Commission.
(4) The suspension,
cancellation or surrender of a licence does not —
(a)
affect the validity of a bond or other security entered into for the purposes
of this Act by the holder or former holder of the licence, which security
shall continue to have effect until discharged by the Commission; or
(b)
release the holder or former holder of the licence from any obligation in
relation to a bet.
(5) Where the holder
of a licence is convicted of an offence under any other written law, or
employs or engages in relation to the business carried on under the licence a
person who is so convicted, the holder of the licence shall notify the
Commission of the conviction within 7 days of becoming aware of the
conviction and shall furnish to the Commission such information regarding that
offence and the conviction as the Commission may require.
(6) A body corporate
or each person who is a member of a partnership that holds a bookmaker’s
licence shall —
(a)
within 7 days after any person becomes or ceases to be a person who
occupies a position of authority in the body corporate or a member of the
partnership, as the case may be, lodge with the Commission a notice or ensure
that a notice is lodged stating the full name and usual residential address of
that person and the fact that the person has become or ceased to be such a
person or member; and
(b) in
the month of July in each year lodge with the Commission a return in a form
approved by the Commission or ensure that the return is so lodged.
Penalty: $1 000.
(7) The annual return
must state —
(a) the
full name and usual residential address of every person who on 30 June
preceding the lodging of the return was a person who occupied a position of
authority in the body corporate or was a member of the partnership, as the
case may be; and
(b) any
other prescribed matter.
[Section 11 inserted by No. 13 of 2002
s. 7; amended by No. 35 of 2003 s. 102.]