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Interactive Gambling Amendment (Lottery Betting) Act 2018

No. 73, 2018

An Act to amend the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, and for other purposes

[Assented to 9 July 2018]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

This Act is the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Lottery Betting) Act 2018.

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	9 July 2018
2. Schedule 1	The day after the end of the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	9 January 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Lottery betting

Interactive Gambling Act 2001

1 Section 4 (at the end of the definition of lottery)

Add:

Note: A keno‑type lottery is an example of a lottery.

2 After paragraph 8AA(1)(a)

Insert:

(aa) the service does not relate to betting on the outcome of a lottery; and

(ab) the service does not relate to betting on a contingency that may or may not happen in the course of the conduct of a lottery; and

3 Subparagraph 8A(5)(c)(iii)

Repeal the subparagraph, substitute:

(iii) a service relating to betting on the outcome of a lottery;

(iiia) a service relating to betting on a contingency that may or may not happen in the course of the conduct of a lottery;

4 Transitional—acquisition of property

(1) Paragraphs 8AA(1)(aa) and (ab) and subparagraphs 8A(5)(c)(iii) and (iiia) of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (as amended by this Schedule) have no effect to the extent (if any) to which their operation would result in an acquisition of property (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxxi) of the Constitution) from a person otherwise than on just terms (within the meaning of that paragraph).

(2) Paragraphs 8AA(1)(aa) and (ab) and subparagraphs 8A(5)(c)(iii) and (iiia) of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (as amended by this Schedule) do not prevent a person from recovering a debt that was deferred or incurred before the commencement of this item.