New amendments to WA gambling laws have been signed by State Premier Roger Cook to impose significant penalties for breaching WA gambling laws and to support the regulator’s compliance and enforcement activities.
Reforms were recommended by the Perth Casino Royal Commission, which was tasked with providing recommendations to modernise WA gambling laws and compliance.
The adopted changes will allow WA’s Gaming and Wagering Commission (GWC) to impose greater fines for compliance failures and the infringement of licensing duties.
Of significance, WA has reformed its gambling laws to align with unified policies applied by other Commonwealth states to harmonise and improve the regulatory oversight of gambling across Australia’s six federal states.
As such, WA gambling laws will ..