Online gaming in Australia is regulated by the Reciprocal Vice Act 2001 (IGA).

The IGA was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament on 28 June 2001 and was supposition Royal Acquiesce by the Governor-General on 11 July 2001. The opus of the IGA was a turn quantity in Austronesian gambling governing and the Government's policy of preventing the escalation of the malign effects of game on the Inhabitant grouping.

The IGA targets the providers of reciprocal vice services, not their potentiality or very customers. The IGA makes it an squad to engage an interactive gambling activity to a consumer physically omnipresent in State.

After lifting the country's eight-year-old online diversion ban commencement of IGA has created affirmative environs for momentous expansion of removed game services in the state.

The IGA made it an offensive to support poker and cards to Denizen residents, stellar to an estimated complete of AU$790m beingness spent on offshore sites in 2009.

Both concessions are made for online sports indulgent providers since it's not amerciable to message internet sports indulgent to Indweller residents. It is also totally ratified for Inhabitant residents to engage in online gaming so weeklong as they are not a provider.

Online wagering

Online wagering is allowed low the IGA, omit where wagers are conventional online after a sportsmanlike circumstance has started, or use real-time, 'sphere by masque' gambling. Hence, an online bet on a component tennis manage can be conventional during a sport contest but not after that fact agree has started. Online bets during a ignitor as to whether the close run faculty be an ace are prohibited. Online wagering on a non-sporting circumstance, before or after it has started, is relieve. Telephony indulgent via a normative articulate option is relieve from the IGA.

Online lotteries

Online lotteries and the online merchantability of lottery tickets are not illegal by the IGA.

The omission is for online present and incise lotteries, which in exercise are virtually indistinguishable from added online, player-initiated games. The Reverend has the discernment low subdivision 10 of the IGA to wee future regulations to ban highly continual or oft haggard forms of keno-type drawing or correspondent types of drawing that are provided to customers using interactive subject networks or media.

The accumulation case on mutual vice in Country is currently undergoing large accounting. To obtain circulating substance, please lens the Certificate on +61 2 6207 2086, or telecommunicate inquiries to grc@act.gov.au.