Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore Bill

Gambling Regulatory Authority
of Singapore Bill

Bill No. 5/2022

Read the first time on 14 February 2022.

An Act to reconstitute the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore as the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore and to modify the functions of the Singapore Totalisator Board, and to make consequential and related amendments to certain other Acts.

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore Act 2022 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“appointed day” means the date of commencement of Part 2;

“Authority” means the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore, which is the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore continued and renamed under section 3;

“Casino Regulatory Authority” means the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore established under the Casino Control Act 2006 in force before the appointed day;

“Chairperson”, in relation to the Authority, means the member of the Authority who is appointed under section 12 as the Chairperson of the Authority, and includes any person appointed under section 14 to act in that capacity;

“Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Authority appointed under section 31, and includes any person acting in that capacity;

“committee” means a committee of the Authority appointed under section 27;

“committee member” means an individual appointed to be a member of a committee;

“delegate” means a person to whom the Authority under section 29(1) delegates the performance or exercise of any of its functions or powers;

“Deputy Chairperson”, in relation to the Authority, means a member of the Authority who is appointed under section 12 as a Deputy Chairperson of the Authority;

“functions”, in relation to the Authority, means functions conferred on the Authority by this Act or any other Act;

“gambling” includes any of the following which is not social gambling:

(a)	participating in a lottery;
(b)	playing a game of chance (which includes a game that is partly a game of chance and partly a game requiring skill);
(c)	making or accepting bets or bookmaking;

“member”, in relation to the Authority, means a member of the Authority appointed under section 10, and includes any person appointed under section 14 to act in that capacity;

“public authority” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function;

“Singapore Totalisator Board” means the Singapore Totalisator Board established under section 3 of the Singapore Totalisator Board Act 1987;

“social gambling” has the meaning given by the Gambling Control Act 2022;

“subdelegate” means a person to whom a delegate under section 29(2) further delegates the performance or exercise of any of the Authority’s functions or powers.

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