Re: [LINK] Net gambling ban and bank powers

From: Danny Yee (danny@anatomy.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 16:08:39 EST


Dale, Tom wrote:
> What the amendment, as passed by the Parliament, actually says is that
> regulations may provide:
>
> (a) That an agreement has no effect to the extent to which it provides for
> the payment of money for the supply of an illegal interactive gambling
> service [ie those services made illegal by the Bill]; and
> (b) That civil proceedings do not lie against a person to recover money
> alleged to have been won from, or paid in conection with, an illegal
> interactive gambling service.
 
I wonder if the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries could get away with
that approach to writing off their foreign debts?

Danny.



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