Singapore legislation

Section 43

of Casino Control Act 2006

Section 43

Operating casino without casino licence prohibited

(1)

A person must not operate a casino without a valid casino licence in force.

(2)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $200,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $20,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

(3)

The court before which a person is convicted of an offence under this section, in addition to imposing on that person any other punishment, is to order the payment by that person of a sum which is equal to that person’s gross gaming revenue for the period that the offence was committed, and any such payment ordered is recoverable as a fine.

(4)

In this section, “gross gaming revenue” has the meaning given by section 146 as if the person who operated the casino had been a casino operator.