Gambling Act not good without going before JSC

Johnson spoke to media staff outside the Parliament yesterday and stated that while he supports certain aspects of the Bill, there are other aspects that must be addressed. He said, “We are here to show our support. We support the Bill, but not entirely. The Bill has some good points regarding the Rehabilitation Fund, you know, the support for the problem gamblers and so forth. We do support that. But then there are some issues in the Bill concerning the employees, which we have concerns about.

Last year, it was in June, June 9th I believe, Senator Faris Al Rawi raised some valid concerns, concerning the over-criminalisation of the Bill.

He also talked about what would happen to innocent infringers.

And these are issues we believe, should be resolved. So what we are pushing for is for the Bill to go before the Joint Select Committee (JSC) as opposed to being passed to the House.” Johnson said that if it was passed without going the JSC, it would be an imperfect law.

And while they would be displeased with that outcome of affairs, they have no intention, he continued, of doing anything “untoward” since they do not want to retard the legal process.