AI Summary of 228. Prohibition on employment of child or young person in providing relevant gambling activity
Section 2A, inserted after section 2 of the Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act 1996, prohibits a licensee from employing, or causing another to employ on the licensee’s behalf, a child or young person to provide a relevant gambling activity, subject to the exception in subsection (2).
Subsection (2) permits such employment only where a gambling licence for a charitable or philanthropic purpose expressly specifies that employment is permitted under section 120 or 121 of the Gambling Regulation Act 2024; subsection (3) creates an offence for contravention, and subsection (4) defines ‘‘Act of 2024’’ and adopts the Act of 2024 meanings of ‘‘gambling licence for a charitable or philanthropic purpose’’, ‘‘licensee’’ and ‘‘relevant gambling activity’’.
228. Prohibition on employment of child or young person in providing relevant gambling activity
The Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act 1996 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 2:
"2A.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a licensee shall not employ, or cause another person to employ on the licensee's behalf, a child or young person to provide a relevant gambling activity.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in respect of the employment of a child or young person by or on behalf of a licensee of a gambling licence for a charitable or philanthropic purpose where it is specified in the gambling licence under section 120 or 121 of the Act of 2024 that such employment is permitted.
(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.
(4) In this section -
'Act of 2024' means the Gambling Regulation Act 2024;
'gambling licence for a charitable or philanthropic purpose' has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2024;
'licensee' has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2024;
'relevant gambling activity' has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2024.".