After section 112O of the Principal Act , the following sections are inserted in Division 5:

112OA.     Costs of investigation

(1)  The Commission may require a prescribed licence holder or an associate of a prescribed licence holder to pay to the Commission such reasonable costs as may be incurred by or on behalf of the Commission in conducting any inquiry or investigation in relation to that person for the purposes of a determination under section 112N or 112O.

(2)  It is a condition of a prescribed licence that the licence holder must pay the costs that the Commission requires the licence holder to pay under this section in connection with any inquiry or investigation conducted for the purposes of making a determination under section 112N.

(3)  The Commission may recover from the holder of a prescribed licence, or the associate of a prescribed licence holder, as a debt due to the Crown, any costs that the Commission has required that person to pay under this section.

(4)  The Commission may give a certificate as to the amount of the reasonable costs incurred by or on behalf of the Commission in conducting any inquiry or investigation for the purposes of a determination made under section 112N or 112O, and such a certificate is, in any proceedings, evidence of the matter certified.

112OB.     Temporary transfer of prescribed licence to liquidator

(1)  Despite section 43(1), if the Commission considers it appropriate, the Commission may endorse on a prescribed licence the name of a receiver and manager, an administrator, an official liquidator or a provisional liquidator who is appointed in respect of the holder of the prescribed licence.

(2)  If the Commission endorses a prescribed licence under subsection (1), for a period of 12 months from the date of that endorsement –

(a) the person whose name is endorsed on the prescribed licence is taken to be the holder of the licence; and

(b) the original holder of the prescribed licence ceases to be the holder of the licence.

(3)  The Commission may extend the period referred to in subsection (2) if it considers it appropriate to do so.

(4)  If the Commission endorses a person's name on a prescribed licence under subsection (1), it may at the same time amend the licence and give directions in respect of the conduct of gaming under, and the administration of the business relating to, that licence.

(5)  A person whose name is endorsed on a prescribed licence under subsection (1) must comply with a direction given to that person under subsection (4).

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 1 000 penalty units.