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AI Summary of 75. Application to Court to direct relevant person to cease prohibited gambling activity and related matters

The Authority may apply to the High Court where it reasonably believes a person is providing or advertising a gambling activity in contravention of Chapter 1. The Court may order the person to cease the prohibited gambling activity and grant ancillary orders including blocking online access via internet service providers or app stores; prohibiting banks from receiving or making payments without leave; restraining disposal, reduction or removal of assets; ordering refunds of relevant payments; and requiring surrender of gambling products.

The Court may make other appropriate orders, require banks to furnish financial information, and compel affidavits from individuals, officers or beneficial owners. It may order disclosure of assets held on behalf of a relevant person, vary orders to permit reasonable living, legal or business expenses, and discharge orders where the activity has ceased or the basis no longer applies. Hearings are public unless special circumstances; the Authority may seek urgent ex parte temporary orders; no undertaking as to damages may be required. "Bank" and "Court" are defined.

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75. Application to Court to direct relevant person to cease prohibited gambling activity and related matters

(1) Where the Authority has reasonable grounds for believing that a person (in this section referred to as a "relevant person") is providing a gambling activity in contravention of Chapter 1 or is advertising such an activity (in this section referred to as a "prohibited gambling activity"), the Authority may apply to the Court for either or both of the following:

(a) an order directing the relevant person to cease the prohibited gambling activity;

(b) one or more of the orders specified in subsection (2).

(2) The orders referred to in subsection (1)(b) are orders directing that:

(a) an internet service provider or a provider of an online application store service, as the case may be, block access to the prohibited gambling activity concerned;

(b) a bank shall not, without leave of the Court, receive any payment into a bank account of a relevant person held with the bank in relation to a prohibited gambling activity;

(c) a bank shall not, without leave of the Court, make any payment out of a bank account of a relevant person held with the bank;

(d) a relevant person shall not, without leave of the Court, dispose of, or direct or facilitate the disposal of, an asset of the relevant person;