Interactive Gambling Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 19 September 2019

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Paul Fletcher

Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

6 Designated interactive gambling service advertisements—exceptions

Schedule 1—Repeals

Interactive Gambling Regulations 2001

1  Name

  This instrument is the Interactive Gambling Regulations 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including designated interactive gambling service.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.

6  Designated interactive gambling service advertisements—exceptions

 (1) This section is made for the purposes of section 61BGA of the Act.

 (2) An advertisement is not a designated interactive gambling service advertisement for the purposes of Part 7A of the Act if the advertisement:

 (a) relates to a product, or a service, that is not a designated interactive gambling service; and

 (b) cannot reasonably be regarded as being intended to promote:

 (i) a designated interactive gambling service; or

 (ii) designated interactive gambling services in general; or

 (iii) a trade mark that is particular to a designated interactive gambling service; or

 (iv) a domain name or URL that relates to a designated interactive gambling service.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Interactive Gambling Regulations 2001

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.