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75. Application to Court to direct relevant person to cease prohibited gambling activity and related matters

(1) Where the Authority has reasonable grounds for believing that a person (in this section referred to as a "relevant person") is providing a gambling activity in contravention of Chapter 1 or is advertising such an activity (in this section referred to as a "prohibited gambling activity"), the Authority may apply to the Court for either or both of the following:

(a) an order directing the relevant person to cease the prohibited gambling activity;

(b) one or more of the orders specified in subsection (2).

(2) The orders referred to in subsection (1)(b) are orders directing that:

(a) an internet service provider or a provider of an online application store service, as the case may be, block access to the prohibited gambling activity concerned;

(b) a bank shall not, without leave of the Court, receive any payment into a bank account of a relevant person held with the bank in relation to a prohibited gambling activity;

(c) a bank shall not, without leave of the Court, make any payment out of a bank account of a relevant person held with the bank;

(d) a relevant person shall not, without leave of the Court, dispose of, or direct or facilitate the disposal of, an asset of the relevant person;