New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Regulations may specify property that must not be used to reward winners

• (1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations that specify property or a class of property that must not be—

  • (a) offered as a reward for gambling; or

  • (b) used to reward a winner of gambling.

  (2) Gambling that offers or uses property or a class of property as a reward in breach of regulations made under subsection (1) is illegal gambling.

  (3) This section overrides anything in this Act to the contrary.

  (4) A notice given under section 70 of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1977 continues in force (despite the repeal of that Act) until a regulation made under subsection (1) replaces it.

  Compare: 1997 No 34 s 70